Case ID: so2d_627/html/0864-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James Scott CONN v. Sharon R. BROOM.
    1910626.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    March 12, 1993.
    Rehearing Denied Sept. 3, 1993.
    Edward P. Turner, Jr. and E. Tatum Turner of Turner, Onderdonk, Kimbrough & Howell, P.A., Chatom, for appellant.
    Mark R. Ulmer of Drinkard, Ulmer, Hicks & Leon, Mobile, for appellee.
   ADAMS, Justice.

"The judgment is affirmed on the authority of Williams v. Delta International Machinery Corp., 619 So.2d 1330 (Ala.1993).

AFFIRMED.

MADDOX, ALMON, HOUSTON and STEAGALL, JJ., concur.

HORNSBY, C.J., and SHORES and INGRAM, JJ., dissent.

HORNSBY, Chief Justice

(dissenting):

I respectfully dissent. See my special opinion in Williams v. Delta International Machinery Corp., 619 So.2d 1330 (Ala.1993).

SHORES, J., concurs.

INGRAM, Justice

(dissenting).

I respectfully dissent. I would adopt the doctrine of comparative negligence, because it would provide the people of Alabama with an up-to-date judicial tool that would promote greater fairness in negligence actions.

We live in the remarkable age of technology in so many areas of our lives. Yet, by retaining the doctrine of contributory negligence, we continue to adhere to the most outmoded concept in our justice system.