# Ex Parte Duncan

> Supreme Court of Alabama · April 11, 2008 · 1 So. 3d 15

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9932323

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex Parte Roy Duncan and Air Flow Awning Company, Inc. (In Re Roy Duncan and Air Flow Awning Company, Inc. v. City of Montgomery).
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** April 11, 2008
- **Citations:** 1 So. 3d 15; 2008 WL 1068261
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Parker
- **Judges:** Cobb, Parker
- **Cited by:** 2 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Roy Duncan and Air Flow Awning Company, Inc., sought certiorari review of the Court of Civil Appeals' no-opinion affirmance, alleging a conflict with that decision and City of Mobile v. Weinacker , 720 So.2d 953 (Ala.Civ.App. 1998).
I write specially to reiterate a fundamental principle about private property set forth in Weinacker :
"`"[S]o far as [an ordinance] restricts the absolute dominion of the owner over its property, it should furnish a uniform rule of action, and its application cannot be left to the arbitrary will of the governing authorities."' Longshore v. City of Montgomery , 22 Ala.App. 620 , 622 , 119 So. 599 , 600 (1928), quoting City Council of Montgomery v. West , 149 Ala. 311 , 314 , 42 So. 1000 , 1000
(1907)."
720 So.2d at 954 -55 .

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