Court Opinion

ID: 9825117
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 12:08:05.478156+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:25.866757
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On Rehearing.
We must follow where the Supreme Court of our State leads. Code 1923, Sec. 7318.
Our opinion in this case was promulgated on. March 19, 1940. And as the law was known to us on that date, we felt, and feel, that it was correct.
But it seems that five days before the release of our said opinion, our Supreme Court had promulgated its opinion in the case of Woodmen of the World Life Ins. Soc. v. Guyton, now reported in 194 So. at page 6551 — but which opinion had not, when we wrote, come to our attention — in which opinion it, as we read it, changed the law theretofore subsisting with reference to the admissibility into the evidence of the “certified copy of the record of Dr. J. N. Baker, the State Health Officer, which showed the findings of the State Health Department on the examination of the sputum of Lelor Blanchard made on January 19, 1937,” and the “certified copy of the record of Dr. J. N. Baker of the State Health Department, which showed the report of Dr. W. P. Stewart on Lelor Blanchard, dated January 20, 1937.” Certainly it changed our understanding of the law.
So now, in the light of this opinion by the Supreme Court (Woodmen of the World Life Ins. Soc. v. Guyton, 194 So. 655 1), and upon its authority, it becomes our duty to hold, and we do hold, that the two documents described in the next herein preceding paragraph, and mentioned in the third and fourth paragraphs of our original opinion, were admissible into the evidence. And that the trial court erred in sustaining the appellee’s objections to their admission. Code 1923, Sec. 7318.
For this error, or these errors, the judgment in appellee’s favor must be reversed.
Accordingly, the appellant’s application for a rehearing is granted; the judgment *376of affirmance heretofore rendered is set aside; the opinion thus extended and corrected. And for the errors indicated the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Application granted; reversed and remanded.

 239 Ala. 216.

 239 Ala. 216.