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  • Ex parte Northington

    37 Ala. 496 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 15, 1861

    . *499 131-2 5 Baxter v. Earl of Portsmouth; & Barn. & Cr. 170; Brown v. Jodrell, 3 C. & P. 30; Chit. Med. Ju. 350; Hallett v. Oakes, 1 Cush. (Mass.) 296 ; Tally v. Tally, 2 Dev. & Batt. 385; Richardson v. … R. 390; Nutt v. Verney, 4 T. R. 120; Chit. Con. 131-2; Brown on Actions, 301; Clarke v. Dunham, 4 Denio, 262 ; Walker v. Clay, 21 Ala. 797 . [2.],.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Wilson v. State

    268 Ala. 86 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 12, 1958

    Ben Scroggins, a witness for the State, testified substantially as follows: I am an agent for the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage' Control Board of the State of Alabama and was such agent on July 29, 1957. … See also Higginbotham v. State, 262 Ala. 236 , 78 So.2d 637 ; Smarr v. State, 260 Ala. 30 , 68 So.2d 6 ; Keith v. State, 253 Ala. 670 , 46 So.2d 705 . II.

    Cited 37 timesPublished
  • Tennessee Coal, Iron R. Co. v. State

    239 Ala. 19 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 7, 1939

    County v. … Co. v. Board of Education of Jefferson County, 5 Cir., 80 F.2d 307 , opinion by Judge Walker. See also Eliasberg Bros. Mercantile Co. v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Richardson v. State

    177 Ala. 8 · Supreme Court of Alabama · May 28, 1912

    Said Fletcher Powers afterwards testified that he was within two or three feet of Brown Horton when he was killed; that it was dark, and he saw Horton call, “Hands up!” … —Fuller v. State, 147 Ala. 35, 37 , 41 South. 774 ; Churchwell v. State, 117 Ala. 124, 126 , 23 South. 72 .

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Holmes v. State

    100 Ala. 80 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Nov 15, 1893

    Polk v. State, 62 Ala. 237 . … We are referred to the case of Brown v. The State, 83 Ala. 33 . The doctrine declared in Brown’s case upon this point was repudiated in the subsequent case of Gibson v. The State, 89 Ala. 121 .

    Cited 27 timesPublished
  • Slaughter v. State

    237 Ala. 26 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 22, 1938

    The authorities generally recognize the rule that ordinarily such impeaching or contradicting testimony does not suffice for a new trial (46 Corpus Juris 280; Fries v. … Acme White Lead & Color Works, 201 Ala. 613 , 79 So. 45 ; Brown v. Brown, 200 Ala. 554 , 76 So. 912 ; Goodwin v. Aaron, 203 Ala. 677 , 85 So. 17 ; Southern Ry. Co. v.

    Cited 24 timesPublished
  • Long v. Roberts & Son

    234 Ala. 570 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 24, 1937

    that question sufficiently dealt with in State Tax Commission v. … J., and THOMAS, BOULDIN, BROWN, FOSTER, and KNIGHT, JJ., concur as herein indicated. GARDNER, J., dissents in part. 1 Ante, p. 556. 2 Ante, p. 150.

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • Leonard v. Lyons

    204 Ala. 615 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 30, 1920

    This question is fully treated in State v. Rogers, 107 Ala. 444 , 19 South. 909 , 32 L. R. A. 520, and repetition of the argument there made is unnecessary. Cobb v. Vary, 120 Ala. 263 , 24 South. 442 ; Hasty v. … J., and McCLELLAN, SAYRE, SOMERVILLE, GARDNER, and BROWN, JJ., concur. (S^aFor other cases see same topic and KEy-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests and Indexes

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Franklin Social Club v. Town of Phil Campbell

    204 Ala. 259 · Supreme Court of Alabama · May 20, 1920

    In Brown v. Birmingham, 140 Ala. 590 , 37 South. 173 , McClellan, C. … In Bryan v. Birmingham, 154 Ala. 447 , 45 South. 922 , 129 Am. St. Rep. 63 , after referring to the rule of Brown v. Birmingham, the court repeated in substance Mr.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Ex Parte Gill

    841 So. 2d 1231 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 28, 2002

    Because Gill's requests referred to his case number CC-95-43.60, a Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition on Judge Brown's docket, the circuit clerk took Gill's requests to Judge Brown, who issued an order which reads, in pertinent … State v. Matthews , 724 So.2d 1140 (Ala.Crim.App. 1998), aff'd , Ex parte Matthews , 724 So.2d 1143 (Ala. 1998).

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Benefield v. Faulkner

    248 Ala. 615 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jan 23, 1947

    See also Johnson v. Long, 236 Ala. 126 , 181 So. 120 ; Rivers v. Rivers, 240 Ala. 648 , 200 So. 764 . … BROWN, LIVINGSTON and SIMPSON, JJ., concur.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Sims v. Etowah County Bd. of Ed.

    337 So. 2d 1310 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Oct 1, 1976

    Anderson v. Board of Education, 49 N.D. 181 , 190 N.W. 807 ; Board of Education v. Volk, 72 Ohio St. 469 , 74 N.E. 646 [18 Am.Neg.Rep. 581]; McClure Bros. v. School Dist ., 79 Mo.App. 80 . … E. g., Madison County Board of Education v. Wigley, 288 Ala. 202 , 259 So.2d 233 (1972); Turk v. County Board of Education, 222 Ala. 177 , 131 So. 436 (1930).

    Overruled on other grounds by Lee v. Hale County Board of Education, 2009 Ala. LEXIS 15 (2009)Cited 48 timesPublished
  • Shepherd v. Scott's Chapel

    216 Ala. 193 · Supreme Court of Alabama · May 12, 1927

    See, also, Smith v. Bachus, 201 Ala. 534 , 78 So. 888 ; Hess v. Rudder, Kidd v. Browne, supra. The rule as recognized by these authorities is the generally accepted one. 1 R. C. L. 732. … SAYRE, BOULDIN, and BROWN, JJ., concur.

    Cited 25 timesPublished
  • Norwood v. Kirby's Adm'r

    70 Ala. 397 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 15, 1881

    Hamilton v. Adams, 15 Ala. 596 . … —Tyler on Eject. 550; Jackson v. Harsen, 17 Amer. Dec. 517; Blake v. Howe, 15 Ib. 681; Russell v. Erwin’s Adm’r, 38 Ala. 44 ; 2 Brick. Dig. p. 200, §§ 103-4. It is no answer to this view, that Mrs.

    Cited 18 timesPublished
  • Alabama Power Co. v. City of Fort Payne

    237 Ala. 459 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Feb 2, 1939

    Morefield v. Koehn, 53 Colo. 367 , 127 P. 234 ; Scroggins v. State, 55 Ga. 380 ; Citizens’ St. R. Co. v. Heath, 154 Ind. 363 , 55 N.E. 744 ; Short v. Sparrow, 96 N.C. 348 , 2 S.E. 233 ; Ewing v. … V.

    Cited 42 timesPublished
  • Rogers v. McLeskey

    225 Ala. 148 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 9, 1932

    bill for alimony, filed in 1928, admitted that they had lived together as man and wife in Alabama for about twenty years; that she left him in 1926; and charged that she was guilty of voluntary abandonment from bed and board … J., and BROWN and KNIGHT, JJ., concur.

    Cited 18 timesPublished
  • Ex Parte State

    527 So. 2d 148 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Mar 18, 1988

    . § 12-21-35 ." 2 The Court of Criminal Appeals subsequently decided Brown v. City of Montgomery , 504 So.2d 748 (Ala.Crim.App. 1987), another *Page 150 driving-while-license-revoked case. … Greene v.

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • TURQUOISE PROPERTIES GULF, INC. v. Hugh OVERMYER

    81 So. 3d 1250 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Sep 30, 2011

    See, e.g., Brown v. … ("Saad”) demanded — and was granted — arbitration in response to an action filed by the Baldwin County Board of Education ("the Board”).

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Humphries v. Bradford

    32 Ala. 500 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jan 15, 1858

    This brings the case directly within the principle settled in Dent v. Chiles, 5 S. & P. 383, 392; Parker v. Goldsmith *502 16 Ala. 526 -28; Mahone v. Reeves, 11 Ala. 345 -51; Brown v. Brown, 5 Ala. 508 ; St. Jobn v. … The plaintiff had crossed the interrogatories, without objecting or excepting to the portions to which these answers were responsive; and he thereby waived all objection to the answers themselves. — Townsend v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • SB v. Saint James School

    959 So. 2d 72 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 8, 2006

    Brown's Ferry Waste Disposal Ctr., Inc. v. Trent , 611 So.2d 226 (Ala. 1992). Bell did not meet with the students before dismissing them because of the delicate nature of the subject matter of the investigation. … In Poff v.

    Overruled on other grounds by White Sands Group, L.L.C. v. Prs II, L.L.C., 2009 Ala. LEXIS 201 (2009)Cited 43 timesPublished

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