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EX PARTE SPRIGGS ENTERPRISES, INC.

78-793.

376 So.2d 1088 (1979)

Ex parte SPRIGGS ENTERPRISES, INC., an Alabama Corporation. In re SPRIGGS ENTERPRISES, INC., an Ala. Corp. v. GULF OIL CORPORATION, a Corp.; Lake Forest, Inc., a Corp.; and Diamondhead Corporation, a Corp.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 9, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. E. Ball of Owen, Ball & Wills, Bay Minette, for petitioner.

Broox G. Holmes, A. Danner Frazer, Jr., of Armbrecht, Jackson, DeMouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, Norborne C. Stone, Jr. of Stone & Partin, Bay Minette, for Lake Forest, Inc., and Diamondhead Corp., respondents.

BEATTY, Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent trial judge to set aside an order permitting two of three co-defendants to stay execution of a $1.25 million judgment entered against them by posting a supersedeas bond totaling only 62.5% of the total judgment. The writ is granted.

Plaintiff-petitioner was awarded $1.25 million in damages in its lawsuit against three corporate defendants. Defendants Lake Forest, Inc. and Diamondhead...

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