Case ID: so2d_667/html/0071-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SouthTRUST BANK OF ALABAMA, N.A. v. Resker Earl CRAWFORD. GULF LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. Resker Earl CRAWFORD.
    1940010, 1940115.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Aug. 4, 1995.
    Robert K. Spotswood, Douglas E. Eckert and Fred M. Haston III of Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Birmingham, for appellant SouthTrust Bank of Alabama, N.A.
    Robert H. Rutherford of Burr & Forman, Birmingham, for appellant Gulf Life Insurance Company.
    Garve Ivey, Jr. of Wilson & King, Jasper, Charles E. Harrison of Wilson and King, Fayette, for appellee Resker Earl Crawford.
   SHORES, Justice.

AFFIRMED. NO OPINION.

See Rule 53(a)(1) and (a)(2)(F), Ala.R.App.P.

KENNEDY, INGRAM, and COOK, JJ., concur.

HOUSTON, J., concurs specially.

HOUSTON, Justice

(concurring specially).

In my opinion, a hearing is required under Rule 23(c), Ala.R.Civ.P., before a class action lawsuit can be dismissed, if the class has been certified or if there has been a denial of class certification on some ground other than inadequate representation by the named plaintiff or plaintiffs. Ex parte First National Bank of Jasper, [Ms. 1940233, December 29, 1995] — So.2d - (Ala.1995) (Houston, J., concurring specially).