Court Opinion

ID: 9932997
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 18:41:28.480049+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:02:44.002556
License: Public Domain

I concur in the holding of the main opinion and with the rationale for that holding. However, with respect to the gratisdictum concerning Ala. R. Civ. P. 39(b), I express no opinion. "`An opinion given in Court . . ., if not necessary to the judgment given of record, but that it might have been as well given, if no such, or a contrary opinion had been broached, is no judicial opinion, no more than a gratis dictum.'" Planters' Merchants' Bank v. Walker, 7 Ala. 926, 944 (1845).