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  • Bethune v. City of Mountain Brook

    336 So. 2d 148 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jul 2, 1976

    Mayor, etc., of City of Anniston v. Davis, 98 Ala. 629 , 13 So. 331 , 39 Am.St.Rep. 94 ; Penton v. Brown-Crummer Inv. Co., 222 Ala. 155 , 131 So. 14 ; Harris v. … As this Court held in Jones v.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • City of Montgomery v. Graham

    255 Ala. 685 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Apr 19, 1951

    Co. v. State, 201 Ala. 317 , 78 So. 93 ; Morgan v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, 248 Ala. 22 , 26 So.2d. 108. … BROWN, FOSTER and SIMPSON, JJ., concur.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Berry v. Pike Cty. Bd. of Educ.

    448 So. 2d 315 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jan 20, 1984

    Nigg v. Smith , 415 So.2d 1082 (Ala. 1982). … State Tenure Commission v. Madison County Board of Education , 282 Ala. 658 , 213 So.2d 823 (1968).

    Cited 17 timesPublished
  • White v. Powell

    246 Ala. 356 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 14, 1944

    BROWN, Justice. This is a proceeding under the Declaratory Judgment Act, Code 1940, Tit. 7, § 156 et seq., instituted in the Circuit Court of Walker County, sitting in equity. … No. 3, v. Parvin, 67 Cal. 501 , 8 P. 43, 44 .

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Medical Soc. of Mobile County v. Walker

    245 Ala. 135 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jan 13, 1944

    A consideration of the statutes which create the State Board of Health and the county boards of health disclose that the Medical Association of the state of Alabama and the Medical Society of Mobile County, as such, are not … J., and BROWN, FOSTER, and STAKELY, JJ., concur. THOMAS, BOULDIN, and LIVINGSTON, JJ., dissent. 1 244 Ala. 553 .

    Cited 30 timesPublished
  • Ex Parte Yocum

    963 So. 2d 600 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Feb 16, 2007

    Lawler Mobile Homes, Inc. v. Tarver , 492 So.2d 297 , 302 (Ala. 1986). … V. Conclusion The Dallas County defendants have not made a sufficient showing that the trial court exceeded its discretion in denying their motion to transfer this action to Dallas County.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Opinion of the Justices

    254 Ala. 506 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Nov 29, 1950

    Garland v. Board of Revenue of Montgomery County, 87 Ala. 223 , 6 So. 402 , 403. … Board of Revenue, supra, “any .aid * * * by which a pecuniary liability is incurred”. See also Southern R. Co. v. Hartshorne, 162 Ala. 491 , 50 So. 139 ; Rogers v. White, 14 Ala.App. 482 , 70 So. 994 ; Swindle v.

    Cited 34 timesPublished
  • Ex parte State Board of Education

    219 So. 3d 604 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Sep 9, 2016

    In State Board of Education v. Mullins, 31 So.3d 91, 96 (Ala.2009), this Court stated that “[t]he [SBOE] ... [is an] agencfy] of the State. … In Lane v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory

    246 Ala. 1 · Supreme Court of Alabama · May 25, 1944

    BROWN, Justice (dissenting). Section 45, Article IV of the Constitution is, in part, a charter of our liberty and way of life. … This presents a case strictly analogous to the case presented in Ballentyne v.

    Cited 194 timesPublished
  • Alabama Power Co. v. Drummond

    559 So. 2d 158 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Feb 16, 1990

    Alabama Power Co. v. Martin , 341 So.2d 695 (Ala. 1977). See also Brown v. Alabama Power Co. , 275 Ala. 467 , 156 So.2d 153 (1963) (owner of the servient estate may not interfere with the dominant estate); Collins v. … Hecht Co. v. Bowles , 321 U.S. 321 , 329-330 [, 64 S.Ct. 587 , 591-92 , 88 L.Ed. 754 ] (1944), cited in Brown II , [ 349 U.S. 294 (1955)] at 300 [, 75 S.Ct. 753 , at 756, 99 L.Ed. 1083 ]." Swann v.

    Cited 20 timesPublished
  • Bragg v. State

    253 Ala. 392 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 22, 1949

    connected with the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. … BROWN, FOSTER, and STAKELY, JJ-, concur. . 252 Ala. 377 .

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • N.C. v. Caldwell

    77 So. 3d 561 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Apr 22, 2011

    Brown, 496 So.2d 756, 758 (Ala.1986). … West v. Founders Life Assur. Co. of Fla., 547 So.2d 870, 871 (Ala.1989).”’ “Prince v. Poole, 935 So.2d 431, 442 (Ala.2006) (quoting Dow v. Alabama Democratic Party, 897 So.2d 1035, 1038-39 (Ala.2004)).” Brown v. W.P.

    Overruled by L.N. v. Monroe County Board of Education, 2013 Ala. LEXIS 81 (2013)Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Smitherman v. Marshall County Com'n

    746 So. 2d 1001 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Aug 27, 1999

    "Governmental entity" shall also include county public school boards, municipal public school boards and city-county school boards when such boards do not operate as functions of the State of Alabama. … Co. v.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth Life Ins. Co. v. First Nat. Bank

    230 Ala. 257 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Feb 28, 1935

    increased the value of the property, the board being content with the engineer’s report. … Complainant insists, therefore, the bill is sufficient as one of this latter character, and the demurrer improperly sustained, citing Cooper v. W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co., 214 Ala. 400 , 108 So. 20 ; Stacey v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Ex Parte Orange Beach Board of Adjustment

    833 So. 2d 51 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 14, 2001

    Advertiser Co. v. Hobbie , supra ; Morgan County Board of Education v. Alabama Public School College Authority , 362 So.2d 850 (Ala. 1978). … Moore, C.J., and Houston, Lyons, Brown, Johnstone, Harwood, and Woodall, JJ., concur.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • State v. Guaranty Savings Building & Loan Ass'n

    225 Ala. 481 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 10, 1932

    Co. v. Board of Revenue, supra; Hall & Farley v. Alabama T. & I. Co., 143 Ala. 464 , 39 So. 285 , 2 L. R. A. (N. S.) 130, 5 Ann. Cas. 363; Id., 152 Ala. 262 , 44 So. 592 ; Sherrill v. … Ass’n v. Board of Commissioners, 115 N. C. 410 , 20 S. E. 526 ; Deniston v. Terry, 141 Ind. 677 , 41 N. E. 143 .

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Ex parte The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama for its Division, University Hospital PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS (In re: Donisha Howard v. The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama) (Jefferson Circuit Court: CV-24-903212).

    Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 12, 2025

    Brown's Ferry Waste Disposal Ctr., Inc. v. Trent, 611 So. 2d 226, 228 (Ala. 1992) (emphasis added). … Co. v. University of Alabama Hosp., 953 So. 2d 413 (Ala. Civ. App. 2006) (entertaining a declaratory-judgment action regarding a hospital lien); Board of Trs. of Univ. of Alabama v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Mitchell v. Jewish Progressive Club

    253 Ala. 195 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 22, 1949

    In the case of Medical and Surgical Society v. … BROWN, LAWSON and STAKELY, JJ., concur.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Maddox v. Druid City Hospital Bd.

    357 So. 2d 974 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Apr 21, 1978

    Plaintiff brought a suit for damages charging negligence against defendant Druid City Hospital Board, which employed the nurse, and defendant Parke-Davis, which had allegedly improperly labeled the drug. … Williams v. Colquett , 272 Ala. 577 , 133 So.2d 364 (1961).

    Cited 29 timesPublished
  • Commissioners Court Tuscaloosa Co. v. State ex rel. City of Tuscaloosa

    180 Ala. 479 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Feb 11, 1913

    In the case of Board of Revenue of Jefferson County v. … See Cromwell v. County of Sac, 94 U. S. 351 [ 24 L. Ed. 195 ]; Nesbitt v. Riverside Independent Dist., 144 U. S. 610 [12 Sup. Ct. 746, 36 L. Ed. 561 ]; Davis v. Brown, 94 U. S. 423 [ 24 L. Ed. 204 ]; Jacobson v.

    Cited 10 timesPublished

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