Case Title: State v. Coheley

Citation: 549 So. 2d 483

Docket Number: 

State: alabama

Court: Alabama Supreme Court

Date: 1989-08-25T00:00:00Z

Document:
549 So. 2d 483 (1989)
STATE of Alabama
v.
Jimmie L. COHELEY, Jr., and Ranae[1] B. Coheley.
88-914.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
August 25, 1989.
Arthur F. Fite III of Merrill, Porch, Dillon & Fite, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Anniston, for appellant.
Charles L. Parks and James S. Hubbard, Anniston, for appellees.
MADDOX, Justice.
The State of Alabama appeals from the trial court's refusal to set aside an order in a condemnation case, in which the trial judge had computed the interest on the judgment in an amount that the record shows the State agreed to at the time.
This is the second time this case has been to this Court. See State v. Coheley, 539 So. 2d 257 (Ala. 1989), in which the judgment was affirmed. After this Court affirmed, the trial court entered the following order:
It is undisputed that the amount of the interest due on the judgment was consented to by counsel for the State. After entry of the order, the State filed a Rule 60(b), Ala.R.Civ.P., motion in which it claimed that the computation of interest was incorrect. Judge Quattlebaum refused to set aside his order. We affirm.
A party cannot appeal from a judgment or order to which the party has consented. City of Bessemer v. Brantley, 258 Ala. 675, 65 So. 2d 160 (1953). We consider that principle applicable here, where the appeal is from the refusal to set aside an order that had been consented to.
By affirming the judgment of the trial court, we should not be understood as addressing whether the computation of interest was as provided for in statutes governing such computations. This Court has *484 recently discussed this very issue in two other cases. See State v. Cockrell, [Ms. 87-641, on application for rehearing, June 23, 1989] (Ala.1989); State v. McGee, 543 So. 2d 669 (Ala.1989).
AFFIRMED.
HORNSBY, C.J., and ALMON, ADAMS and STEAGALL, JJ., concur.
[1]  This appellee's name is as shown on the certificate of appeal filed with the clerk's office; the briefs filed in this case spell her name differently.