State v. Brown

Full title: STATE of Alabama, et al. v. James Clyde BROWN, et al. CITY OF MONTGOMERY…

Court: Supreme Court of Alabama

Date published: Sep 18, 1987

514 So. 2d 836 (Ala. 1987)

Opinion

85-396, 85-533.

July 10, 1987. Rehearing Denied September 18, 1987.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Charles Price, Judge.

Charles A. Graddick and Don Siegelman, Attys. Gen., and Jack M. Curtis, Leura J. Garrett, and George Azar, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellants.

J. Doyle Fuller and George L. Beck, Jr., Montgomery, for appellees.

Donald V. Watkins and Karen Neal Knight, of Watkins, Carter Knight, Birmingham, and James Baker, City Atty., City of Birmingham, for amicus curiae, the City of Birmingham.

Vernon L. Wells II, and Larry B. Childs of Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas O'Neal, Birmingham, for intervenor City of Gulf Shores.

SHORES, Justice.

Reversed and remanded on the authority of City of Dothan v. Holloway, 501 So.2d 1136 (Ala. 1986).

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

TORBERT, C.J., and MADDOX, HOUSTON and STEAGALL, JJ., concur.

JONES, ALMON, BEATTY and ADAMS, JJ., dissent.

BEATTY, Justice (dissenting):

I dissent and adhere to the views I expressed in City of Dothan v. Holloway, 501 So.2d 1136 (Ala. 1986).

JONES, ALMON and ADAMS, JJ., concur.

HOUSTON and STEAGALL, Justices (responding to motions to recuse).

See our respective opinions in City of Dothan v. Holloway, 501 So.2d 1136 (Ala. 1986), for an explanation of our denial of the appellees' motions to recuse.