Courington v. Kilgore
Courington v. Kilgore
Opinion of the Court
This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree in equity overruling demurrer to the bill of complaint as amended. The bill sought a discovery, accounting and cancellation of a deed. The allegations to the stated end are sufficient to give the bill equity.
The demurrer was to the bill as a whole and since the bill contains equity the demurrer was properly overruled. Smith v. Smith, 251 Ala. 694, 39 So.2d 230; Wells v. Wells, 250 Ala. 106, 33 So.2d 466; Wells v. Wells, 249 Ala. 649, 32 So.2d 697. Since the bill is sufficient in its allegations of fact to make a case for equitable relief, it is not subject to the general demurrer even though the right be defectively pleaded, the defective pleading being considered as amended on consideration of such demurrer. Wells v. Wells, supra, 250 Ala. 107, 30 So.2d 466, and cases cited.
So as to avert trouble later, we think it proper to point out that there is a
Of course, on appeal from an interlocutory decree sustaining or overruling a general demurrer, this court will not consider nonjoinder of parties unless the point is made a specific ground of demurrer. Singo v. Brainard, 173 Ala. 64, 55 So. 603; Baisden v. City of Greenville, 215 Ala. 512, 111 So. 2; Hogan v. Bailey, 234 Ala. 64, 173 So. 605; Burt v. Brandon, 230 Ala. 85, 159 So. 691.
Affirmed.
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- Steve COURINGTON v. Brack KILGORE, as Administrator
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