# Lightfoot v. Floyd

> Supreme Court of Alabama · August 4, 1995 · 667 So. 2d 56

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9938302

## Case

- **Full name:** Reginald Lightfoot v. Jim Floyd
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** August 4, 1995
- **Citations:** 667 So. 2d 56; 1995 WL 459123
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Houston
- **Judges:** Almon, Houston
- **Cited by:** 18 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/9938302

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a police investigator detaining plaintiff for questioning was exercising a discretionary function

## Opinion text

I do not believe that either Mr. Floyd or Chief Smith was entitled to discretionary immunity as a matter of law on the conversion claim. Taylor v. Shoemaker , 605 So.2d 828 , 834-35
(Ala. 1992) (Houston, J., dissenting).

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