Case ID: so2d_601/html/0987-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jesse James BROOKS v. Jack BAILEY.
    1910685.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    July 24, 1992.
    Jesse James Brooks, pro se.
    Joseph C. McCorquodale III and Jacqua-lyn M. Sheffield of McCorquodale and McCorquodale, Jackson, for appellee.
   KENNEDY, Justice.

The plaintiff, Jesse James Brooks, appeals a summary judgment in favor of the defendant, Jack Bailey.

The plaintiff sought in the trial court to invoke the provisions of Ala.Code 1975, § 6-2-8, to suspend the operation of the statute of limitations on the claims brought against Bailey. Absent the applicability of § 6-2-8, Brooks’s claims are time-barred.

Section 6-2-8, in pertinent part, permits the suspension of the operation of statutes of limitations where the plaintiff is “imprisoned on a criminal charge for any term less than life.” By Brooks’s own admission he is in prison for life. The provisions of § 6-2-8 do not apply in this case.

AFFIRMED.

HORNSBY, C.J., and MADDOX, SHORES and HOUSTON, JJ., concur.