HOLMES v. ALABAMA TITLE CO., INC.

85-1320 to 85-1324, 85-1472 to 85-1475, 85-1477 and 85-1479.

507 So.2d 922 (1987)

Don W. HOLMES, et al. v. ALABAMA TITLE COMPANY, INC., and Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company. Terrell Keith PARVIN, et al. v. LAWYERS TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY. Jacob STANO, Jr., and Peggy Louise Stano, as Co-guardians for the Estate of Teresa Stano v. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY and Jefferson Land Title Services Company, Inc. Will R. ADDISON, et al. v. LAWYERS TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY. Robert COCHRAN, et al. v. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY and Jefferson Land Title Services Company, Inc. Jacob STANO, Jr. and Peggy Louise Stano, as Co-guardians for the Estate of Teresa Stano v. USX CORPORATION. Terrell Keith PARVIN, et al. v. USX CORPORATION. Don W. HOLMES, et al. v. USX CORPORATION. Robert COCHRAN, et al. v. USX CORPORATION. Hugh W. RICHARDSON, et al. v. USX CORPORATION. Willard C. ALVIS, et al. v. USX CORPORATION.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 8, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah S. Braden and William R. Myers of Yearout, Myers & Traylor, Birmingham, amicus curiae on behalf of Jefferson Land Title Services Co., Inc.

Alicia J. Putt and Larry O. Putt of Smyer, White, Taylor & Putt, Birmingham, amicus curiae on behalf of Mississippi Valley Title Ins. Co.

R. Gordon Pate of Pate, Lewis & Lloyd and Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, Birmingham, for appellants.

Robert R. Sexton, Roger L. Bates, and William M. Acker III, of Barnett, Tingle, Noble & Sexton, Birmingham, for appellees Alabama Title Co., Inc., and Commonwealth Land Title Ins. Co.

Walter Fletcher and Carleton P. Ketchum, Jr., of Dominick, Fletcher, Yeilding, Wood & Lloyd, Birmingham, for appellee Lawyers Title Ins. Corp.

William F. Murray of Burr & Forman, Birmingham, and James B. Kierce, Jr., of Stone, Patton, Kierce & Kincaid, Bessemer, for appellee USX Corp.


SHORES, Justice.

These are appeals by 128 landowners from summary judgments rendered in favor of United States Steel Corporation (now known as USX Corporation), Alabama Title Company, Inc., Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company, Lawyers Title Insurance Company, Mississippi Valley Title Insurance Company, and Jefferson Land Title Services Company, Inc.

The appellants are owners of surface tracts located in the Willow Bend subdivision in Bessemer. The surface...

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