# Gilmore v. Shell Oil Co.

> Supreme Court of Alabama · February 26, 1993 · 613 So. 2d 1272

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9935273

## Case

- **Full name:** Charlie J. Gilmore, as Administrator of the Estate of Charlie M. Gilmore v. Shell Oil Company, a Corporation
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** February 26, 1993
- **Citations:** 613 So. 2d 1272; 1993 WL 47826
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Houston
- **Judges:** Houston, Ingram
- **Cited by:** 22 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9935273

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that "a defendant who creates a dangerous 'condition' is not responsible for a plaintiff's injury that results from the intervention of another agency, if at the time of the defendant's original negligence the intervening agency could not reasonably be foreseen"
- holding that "suicide and/or deliberate and intentional self-destruction is unforeseeable as a matter of law"

## Opinion text

I find no initial legal liability on the part of any defendant, and I would affirm the summary judgment on that ground, although I do agree that Michael Gilmore's act was unforeseeable as a matter of law.

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