Powell v. Powell

Full title: Susie POWELL et al. v. Clifford Jones POWELL, a minor, et al

Court: Supreme Court of Alabama

Date published: Sep 6, 1956

89 So. 2d 530 (Ala. 1956)

265 Ala. 48

Opinion

1 Div. 665.

September 6, 1956.

Appeal from the Washington Circuit Court, in Equity, Joe M. Pelham, Jr., J.

Albert S. Gaston, Mobile, and Wallace P. Pruitt, Chatom, for appellants.

Grady W. Hurst, Jr., Chatom, for appellees.

SIMPSON, Justice.

The appeal in this case must be dismissed. There is no organization of the court appearing in the record as required by Rule 24 of the Supreme Court (old Rule 26), Code 1940, Tit. 7 Appendix. This matter is jurisdictional and the Court must take notice of it ex mero motu. West v. Camp, 264 Ala. 644, 89 So.2d 170; Reynolds v. Henson, 264 Ala. 435, 87 So.2d 856; McPherson v. Stallworth, 262 Ala. 367, 78 So.2d 924; Garrard v. State, 260 Ala. 486, 71 So.2d 59.

Appeal dismissed.

GOODWYN, MERRILL and SPANN, JJ., concur.