Court Opinion

ID: 7629787
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 18:19:00.417755+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:39:14.214283
License: Public Domain

I dissent for the reasons set forth in my dissenting opinion in King v. National Spa Pool Institute, 607 So.2d 1241
(Ala. 1992).
I also note that the wrongful death claim was not filed until five years after Hogland's death. I do not see how the majority can rely on King v. National Spa for its holding in this case. In King, the wrongful death action was filed a few weeks after Halpern's death, well within the two-year limitations period provided for in Ala. Code 1975, § 6-5-410(d): "Such action must be commenced within two years from and after the death of the testator or intestate." This is a molar movement by this Court and by implication overrules numerous cases: Dukes v. Jowers,584 So.2d 524 (Ala. 1991); Cofer v. Ensor, 473 So.2d 984
(Ala. 1985); McMickens v. Waldrop, 406 So.2d 867 (Ala. 1981);Downtown Nursing Home, Inc. v. Pool, 375 So.2d 465 (Ala. 1979), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 930, 100 S.Ct. 1318, 63 L.Ed.2d 763
(1980).