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Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. v. Blackwell
201 Ala. 657 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Mar 23, 1918
“In my. opinion, from my observation, Virginia street is used more than Brown street,, and more than, this way across by Orgain & Pollard’s coal yard, and this way diagonally is used more than Brown street. … Yarbrough, station agent for the defendant; that he saw others pass that way the morning he put the rope up; that did not drive into it — “they all went around it”; that he did not place a board on the rope “to indicate that
Cited 11 timesPublished806 So. 2d 1186 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Nov 3, 2000
Barber v. Covington County Comm'n , 466 So.2d 945 (Ala. 1985). In cases involving the exercise of discretion by an inferior court, mandamus may issue to compel the exercise of that discretion. … MADDOX, HOUSTON, SEE, LYONS, BROWN, JOHNSTONE, and ENGLAND, JJ., concur. COOK, J., dissents. 2 Howard subsequently pleaded guilty to consensual statutory rape and served two years of supervised probation.
Cited 27 timesPublishedW. F. Covington Planter Co. v. Roberson
239 Ala. 70 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Feb 22, 1940
The case of Alabama Baptist Hospital Board v. Carter, 226 Ala. 109 , 145 So. 443 , and others cited by appellants’ counsel are entirely different from the present case both in point and by way of analogy. … THOMAS, BROWN, and KNIGHT, JJ., concur.
Cited 0 timesPublished567 So. 2d 1199 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 15, 1990
Wilson v. Brown , 496 So.2d 756 (Ala. 1986). This case was pending on June 11, 1987; therefore, the applicable standard of review is the "scintilla rule." See, Ala. Code 1975, § 12-21-12 . Judge J.B. … "In Deal v.
Cited 19 timesPublished228 Ala. 609 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Mar 29, 1934
We are cited by counsel for appellant to several authorities, among them, Mattox v. Board of Education, 148 Ga. 577 , 97 S. E. 532 , 5 A. L. R. 568; Morrell v. Carr, 129 Ind. 44 ; Luth v. Kansas City, 203 Mo. … W. 901 ; Coughlin v. McElroy, 74 Conn. 397 , 50 A. 1025 , 92 Am. St. Rep. 224 ; Brown v. Tama County, 122 Iowa, 745 , 98 N. W. 562 , 101 Am. St. Rep. 296 ; People ex rel. McDonnell v. Thompson, 316 Ill. 11 , 146 N.
Cited 5 timesPublished258 Ala. 561 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jan 22, 1953
Crittenden v. Crittenden, 256 Ala. 219 , 54 So.2d 489 ; Sills v. Sills, 246 Ala. 165 , 19 So.2d 521 . … J., and BROWN and LAWSON, JJ., concur.
Cited 1 timesPublishedPentecostal Holiness Church of Montgomery v. Dunn
248 Ala. 314 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 20, 1946
Gravely v. Phillips, 23 Ala.App. 471 , 127 So. 248, 249 ; Awbrey v. Estes, 216 Ala. 66 , 112 So. 529 ; Cortner v. Galyon, 223 Ala. 405 , 137 So. 30 . To like effect is the language of the court in Smith v. … J., and BROWN and STAKELY, JJ., concur.
Cited 9 timesPublishedPalmer v. Perry County Bd. of Educ.
496 So. 2d 2 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Sep 19, 1986
Sims v. Etowah County Board of Education , 337 So.2d at 1316; Enterprise City Board of Education, [v. Miller] 348 So.2d [782] at 783." (Footnote omitted.) Hutt v. … Warrior Hinkle, Inc. v. Andalusia City School Board , 469 So.2d 1285 (Ala. 1985); Hickman v. Dothan City Board of Education , supra; Enterprise City Board of Education v. Miller , 348 So.2d 782 (Ala. 1977).
Cited 10 timesPublished216 Ala. 102 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Mar 24, 1927
Dean v. Board of Education, 210 Ala. 256 , 97 So. 741 . … X, and SOMERVILLE and BROWN, JJ., concur.
Cited 11 timesPublished443 So. 2d 886 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Sep 30, 1983
Indeed, our Constitution at Article IV, § 94, prohibits the grant of public funds for any individual purpose. 1 Brown v. Longiotti, 420 So.2d 71 (Ala.1982); State v. Homan, 38 Ala.App. 642 , 92 So.2d 51 (1957); Stone v. … It cites McWhorter v. Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, 359 So.2d 769 (Ala.1978); Waggoner v. Whatley, 282 Ala. 84 , 209 So.2d 370 (1968); Jordan v.
Cited 1 timesPublishedHitt v. STATE OF ALABAMA PERSONNEL BD.
873 So. 2d 1080 · Supreme Court of Alabama · May 30, 2003
Akers and Lassiter originally filed a petition with the State Personnel Board ("the Board") seeking relief comparable to that awarded the plaintiffs in Brashears v. … State Personnel Board, CV-90-58 (Montgomery Circuit Court September 16, 1993), aff'd, State Personnel Board v.
Cited 6 timesPublished249 Ala. 509 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Aug 12, 1947
Brunson v. Eagerton, 212 Ala. 384 , 102 So. 534 ; State ex rel. Austin v. Black, 224 Ala. 200 , 139 So. 431 ; Court of County Commissioners v. Lightner, 225 Ala. 22 , 141 So. 908 ; Tucker v. State ex rel. … BROWN , J. ED LIVINGSTON THOMAS S. LAWSON ROBT. T. SIMPSON DAVIS F. STAKELY Associate Justices
Cited 5 timesPublished85 Ala. 590 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 15, 1888
Corp. §§ 728, 997; Askew v. Hale County, 54 Ala. 639 ; Gilman v. Contra Costa Co., 68 Amer. Dec. 290, and note; Hill v. Boston, 122 Mass. 344 ; s. c., 23 Amer. Rep. 332; Heacock v. Sherman, 14 Wend. 58; House v. … Board of Comm’rs., 60 Ind. 580 ; Brown v. Jefferson County, 16 Iowa, 339 ; Taylor v. Davis County, 40 Ib. 295; Holmes v. Hamburg, 47 Ib. 340.
Cited 9 timesPublished214 Ala. 345 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Mar 25, 1926
Ed. 226 ], ‘alimony decreed to a wife in a divorce of separation from bed and board is as much a debt of record, until the decree has been recalled, as any other judgment for money is.’ … Sadler v. Fisher’s Adm’rs, 3 Ala. 200 ; Brown v. Brown, 13 Ala. 208, 214 , 48 Am. Dec. 52 ; Wright v. Evans, 53 Ala. 103, 107 .
Cited 10 timesPublished250 Ala. 646 · Supreme Court of Alabama · May 27, 1948
Title 7, § 156 et seq., Code 1940; Chapman v. City of Troy, 241 Ala. 637 , 4 So.2d 1 ; Morgan v. Board of School Commissioners, 248 Ala. 22 , 26 So.2d 108 . … BROWN, LAWSON, and STAKELY, JJ-, concur.
Cited 29 timesPublished898 So. 2d 713 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Oct 1, 2004
V.S. v. State (No. CR-02-1892, January 23, 2004),-So.2d - (Ala.Crim.App.2004)(table). … Board of Pardons & Paroles, 806 So.2d 374, 375 (Ala.2001), quoting Ex parte Smith, 438 So.2d 766, 768 (Ala.1983).
Cited 6 timesPublishedHickman v. Winston County Hosp. Bd.
508 So. 2d 237 · Supreme Court of Alabama · May 22, 1987
Therefore, the trial court did not err when it directed a verdict in favor of Hickman's employer, defendant Winston County Hospital Board. … Plaintiff produced evidence that she was employed by the Winston County Hospital Board at Burdick-West Hospital as a supply clerk and floor supervisor.
Cited 37 timesPublishedAlabama Gas Corporation v. Morrow
265 Ala. 604 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Mar 7, 1957
.; its Board Chairman, J. N. Greene; its Secretary, P. E. Behr; and against its Treasurer, N. R. … See Hutson v. Brown, 248 Ala. 215 , 26 So.2d 907 . Mandamus is the recognized remedy if a demand for access to the records at reasonable and proper times is denied by the officers having custody and control thereof.
Cited 7 timesPublishedEx Parte Beverly Enterprises-Alabama, Inc.
812 So. 2d 1189 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jul 13, 2001
See McKenzie Methane Corp. v. M-W Drilling, Inc ., 653 So.2d 982 , 984 (Ala. 1995). See also Smith v. Equifax Servs., Inc ., 537 So.2d 463 (Ala. 1988). … Houston, See, Lyons, Brown, Johnstone, Harwood, Woodall, and Stuart, JJ., concur. 1 The CON Review Board assessed the cost per bed for Beverly's proposal at $92,233.61.
Cited 10 timesPublishedTucker v. Employees' Retirement System Board of Control
657 So. 2d 866 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Mar 17, 1995
In Borom v. … Employees’ Retirement System Board of Control, 427 So.2d 142 (Ala.1983), this Court upheld the Board of Control’s denial of requests by two district court judges for permission to purchase military service credit in the JRF
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