Case Title: BF Goodrich Co. v. Butler

Citation: 324 So. 2d 788

Docket Number: 

State: alabama

Court: Alabama Supreme Court

Date: 1975-11-20T00:00:00Z

Document:
324 So. 2d 788 (1975)
In re the B.F. GOODRICH CO.
v.
William Travis BUTLER.
Ex parte the B.F. Goodrich Co.
SC 1340.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
November 20, 1975.
Rehearing Denied January 2, 1976.
M.T. Ormond, Tuscaloosa, for petitioner.
Edward F. Morgan, Tuscaloosa, for respondent.
John H. Morrow and Michael H. Mobbs, Birmingham, amicus curiae in support of petition for United States Pipe and Foundry Co. and Stockham Valves and Fittings, Inc.
Thomas, Taliaferro, Forman, Burr & Murray and Robert G. Tate and A. Brand Walton, Jr., Birmingham, amicus curiae in support of petition for Associated Industries of Alabama.
Burns, Shumaker & Davis and Otis J. Goodwyn, Jr., Gadsden, amicus curiae, opposed to petition for Alabama Labor Council AFL-CIO.
William J. Baxley, Atty.Gen., and James S. Ward, Asst. Atty. Gen., amicus curiae, opposed to petition for the State.
PER CURIAM.
The writ to the Court of Civil Appeals, 56 Ala.App. 635, 324 So. 2d 776 is quashed as improvidently granted. By so doing we are not to be understood as expressing any opinion on the constitutionality of Act No. 1062 as that question was not properly presented to the trial court.
Writ quashed as improvidently granted.
MERRILL, ALMON and SHORES, JJ., concur.
MADDOX and JONES, JJ., concur specially.
MADDOX, Justice (concurring specially.)
I would affirm the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals. While the Court of Civil Appeals did make certain "observations" that Act No. 1062 was not unconstitutional because the bill which passed the Legislature was not exactly like the one signed by the Governor, the actual holding of that court was that the constitutional question had not been properly presented. The Court of Civil Appeals did discuss the constitutional question, nevertheless, and I believe that court made a correct "observation"that Act No. 1062 was not void in its entirety because of the *789 variance. Justice Clopton, in Stein v. Leeper, 78 Ala. 517 (1885), set out the rule to follow in such matters:
By quashing the writ rather than affirming the Court of Civil Appeals, the majority has failed to give final review of a new statute which will affect the rights of many employers and employees alike. That is why I would affirm the case rather than quash the writ.
JONES, J., concurs.