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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hagood v. Smith

    162 Ala. 512 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 30, 1909

    .— Montgomery, etc., Co. v. Lahey, 121 Ala. 131 , 25 South. 1006 ; Montgomery Traction Co. v. Harmon, 140 Ala. 505 , 37 South. 371 ; Tillis v. Brown, 154 Ala. 403 , 45 South. 589 , and cases there cited. … R. v. Neal, 128 Ala. 149 , 29 South. 865 .

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • In re: Tameka Fitzpatrick v. Personnel Board of Jefferson County and City of Birmingham

    Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama · May 29, 2026

    Holmes v. Powell, supra. … Dykes v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Ex Parte Pitts

    822 So. 2d 418 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Nov 21, 2001

    Dabney , 73 F.3d 262 (10th Cir. 1995); Ralston Purina Co. v. McFarland , 550 F.2d 967 (4th Cir. 1977); and Quantachrome Corp. v. Micromeritics Instrument Corp ., 189 F.R.D. 697 (S.D.Fla. 1999). … Houston, See, Lyons, Brown, Johnstone, Harwood, Woodall, and Stuart, JJ., concur. Moore, C.J., dissents.

    Cited 6 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
  • 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
  • Brown v. U.S. Foods, Inc.

    District Court, M.D. Alabama · Oct 13, 2020

    Thompson v. N. Am. Stainless, LP, 562 U.S. 170, 174 (2011) (quoting Burlington N. & Sante Fe Ry. v. … V.

    Cited 0 timesUnknown
  • 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
  • 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
  • Watson v. State

    504 So. 2d 339 · Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · Nov 25, 1986

    Napier v. State , 357 So.2d 1011 , 1013 (Ala. 1978). "Justice Stone, in Mitchell v. … "See also Jackson v.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Boise v. Merry

    266 Ala. 286 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 27, 1957

    This case was before us on former appeal, reported as Merry v. County Board of Education of Jefferson County, 264 Ala. 411 , 87 So.2d 821 . … Appellant cites First National Bank of Lincoln v. Cash, 220 Ala. 319 , 125 So. 28 ; Brown v. Olsson, 254 Ala. 695 , 49 So.2d 564 .

    Cited 3 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
  • Covin v. Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling

    796 So. 2d 358 · Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama · Mar 30, 2001

    The prior judgment of this court has been reversed to the extent it held that § 34-8A-8(6) exempts Covin from the subject-matter jurisdiction of the board, and the cause remanded by the Supreme Court of Alabama. … Ex parte Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling, 796 So.2d 355 (Ala.2000). In compliance with the Supreme Court’s opinion, we remand the case for an order or proceedings consistent with the Supreme Court’s opinion.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • City of Mobile v. Mobile Electric Co.

    203 Ala. 574 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 4, 1919

    School v. Charleston, 271 Ill. 602 , 111 N. E. 573 , L. R. A. 1916D, 991; State v. Helena, 24 Mont. 521 , 63 Pac. 99 , 55 L. R. A. 336, 81 Am. St. … McClellan, sayre, someryille, THOMAS, and BROWN, JJ., concur. GARDNER, J., thinks that section 1183 of the Code is purely directory, and dissents.

    Overruled in part by Alford v. City of Gadsden, 349 So. 2d 1132 (1977)Cited 39 timesPublished
  • Board for the Assessment of the Property of Railroad Companies v. Alabama Central Railroad

    59 Ala. 551 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 15, 1877

    This is attempted by the statute prescribing the rule by which the board of assessment was governed. … The assessment is, consequently, invalid,—an excess of authority by the board. *558 'The judgment of the City Court, vacating it, is therefore affirmed.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • State Ex Rel. Austin v. Black

    224 Ala. 200 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jan 21, 1932

    Wallace v. Board of Revenue of Jefferson County, 140 Ala. 491 , 37 So. 321 ; Jacobs v. State, 144 Ala. 98 , 40 So. 572 . … J., and BOULDIN and BROWN, JJ„ concur. .

    Cited 21 timesPublished

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