PUTMAN v. VATH

SC 1840.

340 So.2d 26 (1976)

Dennis PUTMAN v. Joseph G. VATH, Individually, and as Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 3, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Still, Birmingham, for appellant.

W. H. Sadler, Jr., and W. J. Sullivan, III, Birmingham, for appellee.


SHORES, Justice.

Dennis Putman is a Catholic priest and Joseph G. Vath is the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham. Putman was incardinated in the Diocess of Birmingham and was serving at the direction of the Bishop as Campus Minister at the University of Alabama in Birmingham on December 7, 1973, when Bishop Vath assigned him to serve as Notary of the Tribunal of the Diocese and as Assistant at the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows. On December 11, 1973, Putman...

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