Title: Bogle v. Scheer
Citation: 512 So. 2d 1336
Docket Number: N/A
State: Alabama
Issuer: Alabama Supreme Court
Date: July 31, 1987

512 So. 2d 1336 (1987)
John William BOGLE, Jr.
v.
Robert S. SCHEER, et al.
86-55.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
July 31, 1987.
*1337 J.L. Chestnut, Jr., of Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders, Turner &amp; Williams, Selma, for appellant.
Ian F. Gaston of Gaston and Gaston, Mobile, for appellees Robert S. Scheer and Kenneth Hallford.
Hilliard R. Reddick, Jr., of Hardin &amp; Hollis, Birmingham, for appellees John Reid and John Hendrix.
HOUSTON, Justice.
The plaintiff, John William Bogle, appeals from a summary judgment granted in favor of the defendants, Robert S. Scheer, John Reid, Kenneth Hallford, and John Hendrix, in this action to recover damages for an unlawful indictment, arrest, and prosecution. We affirm.
The plaintiff was formerly an employee of the Alabama Department of Public Safety. All of the defendants are employees of that department. This action arose out of the indictment, arrest, and prosecution of the plaintiff for possession of controlled substances.
The plaintiff filed a five-count complaint in the Circuit Court of Mobile County. However, on appeal he has argued only that a summary judgment was not proper on the conspiracy count (count four). Because issues not argued in brief are waived, Humane Soc. of Marshall County v. Adams, 439 So. 2d 150 (Ala. 1983), our review is limited to whether the summary judgment was proper on the conspiracy count.
The plaintiffs' complaint, in pertinent part, reads as follows:
The following affidavits were submitted in support of the defendants' motions for summary judgment:
Chris N. Galanos:
Kenneth Hallford:
"In my official capacity as a law enforcement officer I was contacted in Montgomery by the District Attorney of Mobile County concerning allegations of possible wrongdoing on the part of the Plaintiff in connection with his relation to *1339 Calvin Louis Chappelle. Upon receipt of that request, I relayed the information through my chain of command to the Director of the Department of Public Safety. Thereafter, an investigation was performed in cooperation with the District Attorney of Mobile County who, I am informed, presented the results of that investigation to a grand jury which in turn indicted the Plaintiff on various charges which are the basis of this lawsuit."
Robert S. Scheer:
John Hendrix:
John Reid:
A summary judgment is proper when there is no genuine issue of material fact and the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law. Rule 56(c), Ala.R.Civ.P. All reasonable doubts concerning the existence of a genuine issue of fact must be resolved against the moving party. Fountain v. Phillips, 404 So. 2d 614 (Ala.1981). Once the defendants made a prima facie showing that the plaintiff's allegations were unsubstantiated, the burden was on the plaintiff in this case to present at least a scintilla of evidence in support of each element of his cause of action. The plaintiff testified during his deposition that he had no evidence to support his allegation that John Reid and John Hendrix conspired against him. We have also carefully reviewed the remainder of the record and have found no evidence tending to show that any of the defendants combined to injure the plaintiff as he claims. See Sadie v. Martin, 468 So. 2d 162 (Ala.1985). Speculation and conclusory allegations are insufficient to create a genuine issue for trial. Arrington v. Working Woman's Home, 368 So. 2d 851 (Ala.1979); Fullman v. Graddick, 739 F.2d 553 (11th Cir.1984).
For the foregoing reasons the summary judgment granted in favor of the defendants is affirmed.
AFFIRMED.
MADDOX, ALMON, BEATTY and ADAMS, JJ., concur.
[1]  We note that Galano's affidavit spells this name Louis Chapelle, while other affidavits use the spellings Lewis and Chappelle.