# Walker v. Capstone Building Corp.

> Supreme Court of Alabama · March 16, 2012 · 96 So. 3d 77

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4876941

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex parte CAPSTONE BUILDING CORPORATION. (In re William Walker v. Capstone Building Corporation)
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** March 16, 2012
- **Citations:** 96 So. 3d 77; 2012 Ala. LEXIS 32; 2012 WL 887497
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Woodall
- **Judges:** Bolin, Cobb, Main, Murdock, Parker, Shaw, Stuart, Wise, Woodall
- **Cited by:** 34 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that a court may consider " 'the plausibility of the existing interpretation of a statute, the extent to which that interpretation has been fixed in the fabric of the law, and the strength of arguments for changing the interpretation’ ” (quoting 20 Am.Jur.2d Courts § 13…
- explaining that wantonness requires an "act done or omitted with knowledge of the probable consequence and with reckless disregard of such consequence"

## Opinion text

WOODALL, Justice
(dissenting).
I am not convinced that McKenzie v. Killian, 887 So.2d 861 (Ala.2004), was wrongly decided; therefore, I do not agree that the decision should be overruled. Consequently, I respectfully dissent.
APPENDIX TO OPINION OF THE COURT
The dissenting opinion of then Chief Justice Cobb that accompanied the release on June 3, 2011, of this Court’s opinion on original submission in this case is set out below:

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