Case Title: Ex parte Tyson Foods, Inc., et al. PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS: CIVIL (In re: Reba Kirkley, as administratrix of the estate of Allen Hayes, deceased v. Tyson Foods, Inc., et al.) (Blount Circuit Court: CV-2008-900082). Application Overruled. No Opinion.

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State: alabama

Court: Alabama Supreme Court

Date: 2013-10-04T00:00:00Z

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SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA
SPECIAL TERM, 2013
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Ex parte Tyson Foods, Inc., et al.
PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS
(In re: Reba Kirkley, as administratrix of the estate of
Allen Hayes, deceased
v.
Tyson Foods, Inc., et al.)
(Blount Circuit Court, CV-2008-900082)
MOORE, Chief Justice.
APPLICATION OVERRULED. NO OPINION.
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Stuart, Bolin, Parker, Shaw, Main, Wise, and Bryan, JJ.,
concur.
Murdock, J., concurs specially.
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MURDOCK, Justice (concurring specially).
The application for rehearing is based on an argument
that the issue presented in this case is one of standing.  The
rejection of that argument on original submission was a
position with which I agreed and with which I continue to
agree.  I therefore must concur in overruling the application
for rehearing.
That said, I believe a question exists as to whether the
issue before us is properly considered to be a real-party-in-
interest issue, as the main opinion suggests, entitling the
plaintiff to the benefit of the relation-back principle
embodied in Rule 15(a), Ala. R. Civ. P., or whether this is a
case in which the only party with a cause of action under
Alabama law simply missed her statute-of-limitations deadline
for commencing an action.  The application for rehearing,
however, does not explore the circumstances that the real-
party-in-interest concept was intended to address.
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