Court Opinion

ID: 9666650
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:23:44.767091+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:31.621301
License: Public Domain

EMBRY, Justice
(concurring in part and dissenting in part) :
I concur to affirm the judgment below. However, I dissent from, and disagree with, that portion of the opinion where it is stated:
“ * * * The appellant devotes the major portion of his brief to an appeal to abolish the defense of governmental immunity in tort actions as to counties. This court did just that in Lorence v. Hospital Board of Morgan County, 294 Ala. 614, 320 So.2d 631 (1975) * * * ”
In that case the action was against a public corporation organized by the county *718pursuant to statutory authority, as pointed out in my separate opinion. The Hospital Board, by virtue of the statute giving it life, was amenable to suit ex delicto and ex contractu. In this case the county of Coffee could not be amenable to suit, either ex delicto or ex contractu, for the simple reason that there had never been a legislative grant of authority made to it that permitted the- actions in which it was engaged nor the authority to enter into the agreement pertaining to those actions, from either or both of which the suit arose. ■
As .to that portion of the opinion which makes reference to Green v. Hospital Building Authority of City of Bessemer, my views are expressed, as well as ability permits, in the dissent voiced there. Therefore, there is no need to reiterate here.