# Sly v. SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TELEPHONE CO.

> Supreme Court of Alabama · July 25, 1980 · 387 So. 2d 137

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7505022

## Case

- **Full name:** Dona Sly v. South Central Bell Telephone Company.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** July 25, 1980
- **Citations:** 387 So. 2d 137; 1980 Ala. LEXIS 3080
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Jones
- **Judges:** Maddox, Torbert, Shores, Beatty, Jones
- **Cited by:** 2 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

JONES, Justice
(concurring specially).
This is a close case because ordinarily the “reasonably foreseeable” test is one for the jury. But I agree that these particular facts reduce the issue to a purely legal one which has been correctly decided by the trial court.
I am persuaded that, as a matter of law, Sly’s injury, if any, was, at best, a “remote result” and not “a matter reasonably foreseeable” by South Central Bell. Zeigler v. Blount Brothers Construction Co., 364 So.2d 1163 (Ala.1978).

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