CLARDY v. SANDERS

No. 87-1070.

551 So.2d 1057 (1989)

Debby D. CLARDY, as executrix of the Estate of Thomas Eugene Clardy, deceased; and Clardy Realty, Inc. v. Martha Hoffman SANDERS.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied September 8, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael B. Beers of Beers, Anderson, Jackson & Smith, Montgomery, and Julian P. Hardy of Pritchard, McCall, Jones, Spencer & O'Kelley and Karon O. Bowdre and Deborah Alley Smith of Rives & Peterson, Birmingham, for appellants.

Richard M. Jordan and Randy Myers, Montgomery, and W. Sidney Fuller, Andalusia, for appellee.

William M. Cunningham, Jr. of Sintz, Campbell, Duke, Taylor & Cunningham, Mobile, for amicus curiae Ala. Defense Lawyers Assoc., in support of appellant.


JONES, Justice.

This appeal by the defendants, from an adverse judgment based on a jury verdict in a wrongful death case, raises the following issues: Whether the trial court erred 1) in denying Clardy Realty, Inc.'s motion for directed verdict on the grounds of insufficiency of the evidence and the inapplicability of the "successor corporation liability" doctrine; 2) in denying the defendants' constitutional challenge to Alabama's punitive damages award in wrongful...

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