Court Opinion

ID: 9651949
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 17:02:37.244986+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:44.160591
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BRYAN, Judge,
dissenting.
The main opinion reverses the summary judgment on the basis of the argument that, even though Mrs. Jenkins’s loss-of-consortium claim is a derivative claim that arises from the injury to her husband, nonetheless it was not extinguished by her husband’s settling his claim because Alabama law considers her claim to be her separate property right. I must respectfully dissent from that holding because Mrs. Jenkins never presented that argument to the trial court. Although we review a summary judgment de novo, nonetheless, we “‘can consider an argument against the validity of a summary judgment only to the extent that the record on appeal contains material from the trial court record presenting that argument to the trial court before or at the time of submission of the motion for summary judgment.’ ” Ladas Land & Dev., Inc. v. Merritt & Walding Props., L.L.P., 978 So.2d 55, 59-60 (Ala.Civ.App.2007) (quoting Ex parte Ryals, 773 So.2d 1011, 1013 (Ala.2000)) (emphasis altered).