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EX PARTE ST. REGIS CORP.

87-513.

535 So.2d 160 (1988)

Ex parte ST. REGIS CORPORATION. (Re ST. REGIS CORPORATION-CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION v. Royce A. PARNELL).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Boyd Reeves and William H. Philpot, Jr., Armbrecht, Jackson, DeMouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, for petitioner.

Edward P. Turner, Jr., and Halron W. Turner of Turner, Onderdonk & Kimbrough, Chatom, for respondent.

SHORES, Justice.

We granted the petition for writ of certiorari in this workmen's compensation case to review an issue of first impression in this Court: whether the trial court, when exercising its discretion to order payment of a lump sum attorney fee, must first reduce the periodic monthly payments to the injured workman to present value. We hold that the Court of Civil Appeals erred in affirming the trial court's judgment awarding a lump sum attorney's fee in...

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