Ex parte Inglish

Decision Date20 February 1981
Citation394 So.2d 967
PartiesEx parte Bonnie Lummus INGLISH. Re Bonnie Lummus INGLISH v. UNITED SERVICES GENERAL LIFE COMPANY, an Oklahoma Corporation. 80-130.
CourtAlabama Supreme Court

Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals.

Harold Howell of Howell, Sarto & Howell, Prattville, for petitioner.

Charles B. Paterson of Ball, Ball, Duke & Matthews, Montgomery, for respondent.

TORBERT, Chief Justice.

By denying the petition, we should not be understood as agreeing with the treatment of the evidentiary issue in this case by the Court of Civil Appeals, 394 So.2d 960.

WRIT DENIED.

MADDOX, JONES, SHORES and BEATTY, JJ., concur.

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