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  • Ex Parte Water Works Bd. of Gulf Shores

    508 So. 2d 242 · Supreme Court of Alabama · May 22, 1987

    *Page 244 The Water Works Board correctly points out that it may proceed against the surety on the bond without first exhausting its remedies against the principal. Alabama Bank Trust Co. v. … Because Travelers was not a party to Harmon's Jefferson County suit, the Water Works Board's claim against Travelers is not a compulsory counterclaim to be filed in Harmon's suit. Corona v. Southern Guaranty Ins.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • City of Tuscaloosa v. Standard Oil Co.

    221 Ala. 670 · Supreme Court of Alabama · May 29, 1930

    The action of the building inspector in refusing the permit of petitioner was sustained by the Board of Appeals. … Bloch v. McCown, 219 Ala. 656 , 123 So. 213 . And there is no public necessity shown for its location. Reversed and remanded. ANDERSON, O. J., and SAYRE and BROWN, JJ., concur. ,tr. , 1 220 Ala. 556 .

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Sharpe v. Western Ry. of Alabama

    234 Ala. 507 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 14, 1937

    *509 BROWN, Justice. … Alabama Baptist Hospital Board v. Carter, 226 Ala. 109 , 145 So. 443 ; 52 C.J. 538, § 2107. Said count shows that plaintiff was a mere licensee of the defendant. Atlantic Coast Line Ry. Co. v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Gray v. United Produce & Products Co.

    288 Ala. 695 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 2, 1971

    Broughton v. Broughton, 17 Ala.App. 255 , 84 So. 635 .” It was said in Thomas v. … Brown, 198 Ala. 638 , 73 So. 964 ; Robertson v. State, 29 Ala.App. 399 , 197 So. 73 , certiorari denied 240 Ala. 51 , 197 So. 75 ; 5 C.J.S., Appeal and Error, p. 264, § 1533), we will so assume.”

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Jackson Securities & Inv. Co. v. State

    241 Ala. 288 · Supreme Court of Alabama · May 29, 1941

    The meetings of the board of directors of appellant are held at said place of business in said city of Birmingham. “6. … BROWN, and LIVINGSTON, JJ., concur. BOULDIN, J., concurs in the conclusion for the reasons which he separately states.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Pardue v. Citizens Bank & Trust Company

    287 Ala. 50 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Mar 25, 1971

    Coley v. W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co., 251 Ala. 253 (235), 36 So.2d 326 , [ 37 So.2d 125 ]; McCarter v. Crawford, et al., 156 N.E. 90 , 245 N.Y. 43 ; Texaco Inc. v. … Pardue from his duties as President and Chairman of the Board?”

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Lide v. Parker's

    60 Ala. 165 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 15, 1877

    —Sanders v. Watson, 14 Ala. 200 ; Halfmann's Executors v. Ellison, 51 Ala. 544 ; 1 Brickell’s Dig. 655. … It is a misapplication of the doctrine of the case of Penn v.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Jordan v. Alabama State Bar Ass'n

    92 So. 3d 724 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Mar 23, 2012

    In Pinkerton v. … In United States v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Turner v. COUNTY BD. OF ED. OF DALE CTY.

    360 So. 2d 948 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 30, 1978

    Although the deed fails to establish a time of performance of the covenant, in McKee v. … Appellants rely on City of Montgomery v.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Large v. Hayes by and Through Nesbitt

    534 So. 2d 1101 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Sep 30, 1988

    Abernathy v. Colbert County Hospital Board , 388 So.2d 1207 (Ala. 1980). In Abernathy , the Court quoted, with approval, the following from Tennessee Coal, Iron R.R. Co. v. … Maddox v. Druid City Hospital Board , 357 So.2d 974 (Ala. 1978). Certainly, this policy should be elevated in litigation involving an injury to a minor.

    Cited 25 timesPublished
  • Matthews v. ALABAMA AGR. AND MECHANICAL UNIV.

    787 So. 2d 691 · Supreme Court of Alabama · May 26, 2000

    Board of Trustees of Univ. of Alabama, 288 Ala. 20 , 256 So.2d 281 (1971); Cox v. Board of Trustees of Univ., 161 Ala. 639 , 49 So. 814 (1909). … HOUSTON, LYONS, BROWN, JOHNSTONE, and ENGLAND, JJ., concur. HOOPER, C.J., and MADDOX and COOK, JJ., concur in the result. JOHNSTONE, Justice (concurring).

    Declined to follow by Walker v. City of Huntsville, 2010 Ala. LEXIS 192 (2010)Cited 25 timesPublished
  • Crook v. Anniston City Land Co.

    93 Ala. 4 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Nov 15, 1890

    . — Oliver v. Robinson, supra; Jackson v. King, 82 Ala. 432 ; Cooley on Tax. 497. … In Watson v.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Thomas v. Southeast Alabama Sickle Cell Ass'n

    581 So. 2d 845 · Supreme Court of Alabama · May 31, 1991

    See Patterson v. State, 51 Ala.App. 659 , 288 So.2d 446 (1974); Howard v. McCarson, 215 Ala. 251 , 110 So. 296 (1926); 7A C.J.S. Attorney and Client § 219 (1980). We find no abuse of that discretion here. … Johnson & Assoc. v. Rivers Constr. Co., 532 So.2d 618 (Ala.1988); Thomas v. Kellett, 489 So.2d 554 (Ala.1986).

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • United Council of Loxley, Inc. v. City of Loxley

    489 So. 2d 538 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Apr 25, 1986

    In Water Works Board of the City of Birmingham v. Barnes, supra, the trial court held that the plaintiffs had shown that the Board’s rate schedule was unlawful and unreasonable. … See Birmingham Water Works Co. v. Brown, 191 Ala. 457 , 67 So. 613 (1914). A similar statement was made in Miller v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Willingham

    240 Ala. 294 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Oct 10, 1940

    Louis Pizitz Dry Goods Co. v. Waldrop, supra; McMillan v. Aiken, supra. … Chief Justice GARDNER, and BOULDIN, BROWN, FOSTER, and LIVINGSTON, JJ., are in accord with the writer that the writ of certiorari should be granted, but limit their concurrence to the proposition stated that the court erroneously

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Bank of Florala v. American Nat. Bank

    199 Ala. 659 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Apr 19, 1917

    Scant attention was paid to our rule (McDonald v. Carnes, 90 Ala. 147 , 7 South. 919 ; Bolling v. … —Hall & Brown Woodworking Machine Co. v. Haley Furniture & Mfg. Co., 174 Ala. 190 , 56 South. 726 . (7-9) The conclusion indicated above is to be sustained on another ground.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Brewton v. Ala. Farm Bureau Mut. Cas. Ins.

    474 So. 2d 1120 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Aug 9, 1985

    Co. of N.Y. v. … Co. v.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Opinion of the Justices

    267 Ala. 666 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Aug 14, 1958

    Mayer v. Adams, 182 Ga. 524 , 186 S.E. 420 ; Hammond v. Clark, 136 Ga. 313 , 71 S.E. 479 , 38 L.R.A.,N.S., 77; Prohibitory Amendment Cases, 24 Kan. 700 ; State ex rel. Board of Fund Com’rs v. … Thompson v. Winnett, 78 Neb. 379 , 110 N.W. 1113 , 10 L.R.A.,N.S., 149; Whiteside v. Brown, Tex. Civ.App., 214 S.W.2d 844 ; Cudihee v. Phelps, 76 Wash. 314 , 136 P. 367 ; State ex rel. Morgan v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Moore v. John Hancock Life Ins. Co.

    876 So. 2d 443 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Sep 5, 2003

    Eagerton v. Williams , 433 So.2d 436 (Ala. 1983); Brown Mech. Contractors, Inc. v. Centennial Ins. Co. , 431 So.2d 932 (Ala. 1983); Bagley v. City of Mobile , 352 So.2d 1115 (Ala. 1977); Boger v. … State v. Property at 2018 Rainbow Drive , 740 So.2d at 1027 (quoting Romer v. Board of County Comm'rs of the County of Pueblo , 956 P.2d 566 , 581 (Colo. 1998) (Kourlis, J., dissenting)).

    Cited 16 timesPublished

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