Case ID: so2d_480/html/1232-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "FAULKNER, Justice. TORBERT, Chief Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte Juanita KETTLER. (Re Juanita KETTLER v. John L. FRYER).
    84-1376.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Nov. 27, 1985.
    Special Concurring Opinion Dec. 20, 1985.
    Charles J. Kettler, Jr., Luverne, for petitioner.
    Don Diekert, Brundidge and E.C. Orme and Joseph B. Wiley, Troy, for respondent.
   FAULKNER, Justice.

WRIT DENIED.

ALMON, BEATTY and HOUSTON, JJ., concur.

TORBERT, C.J., concurs specially.

TORBERT, Chief Justice

(concurring specially).

Proceedings involving decedents’ estates do normally take longer than other litigation. While it is difficult to believe that a case could be pending for as long as this one was, the record does not disclose any motions or other proceedings (by way of mandamus, etc.) to require the trial court to make a decision. Apparently this case is an aberration in our system, which is dedicated by rule, court decision, and administrative policy to concluding all cases without undue delay.