HOWELL v. MALONE

79-117.

388 So.2d 908 (1980)

Charles E. HOWELL et al. v. Ken MALONE et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 12, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald P. Slepian and Gordon O. Tanner of McDermott, Slepian, Windom & Reed, Mobile, for appellants.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and Herbert I. Burson, Jr. and Ron Bowden, Counsel for Dept. of Revenue, and Asst. Attys. Gen. and Maury Friedlander, Mobile, for appellees.


MADDOX, Justice.

The central issue involved in this appeal is whether Alabama's system of classification of property for ad valorem taxation, as authorized by amendment 373 to the Alabama Constitution, violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

The specific issue presented is whether the state can place "single-family owneroccupied residential property" in a separate classification from other...

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