Case Title: Howton v. Avery

Citation: 511 So. 2d 173

Docket Number: 

State: alabama

Court: Alabama Supreme Court

Date: 1987-07-10T00:00:00Z

Document:
511 So. 2d 173 (1987)
Johnny HOWTON
v.
Jerry Dale AVERY.
86-514.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
July 10, 1987.
*174 Lee R. Benton of Schoel, Ogle and Benton, Birmingham, for appellant.
William N. Clark of Redden, Mills & Clark, Birmingham, for appellee.
PER CURIAM.
The appellant would have us create a cause of action for tortious interference with a marital contract. We see no reason to reopen an avenue to litigation that the Legislature, in its wisdom, closed in 1935 by enactment of a statute codified at Code 1975, § 6-5-331.
We affirm the judgment dismissing the case and adopt the following language from Arnac v. Wright, 163 Ga.App. 33, 292 S.E.2d 440, 442 (1982):
See, also, Norris v. Moskin Stores, Inc., 272 Ala. 174, 132 So. 2d 321 (1961).
AFFIRMED.
TORBERT, C.J., and JONES, SHORES, ADAMS and STEAGALL, JJ., concur.