CITY OF BIRMINGHAM v. WAITS

1941681.

706 So.2d 1127 (1997)

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM v. Janet Lavert WAITS.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 7, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Demetrius C. Newton, city atty., and Thomas Bentley III, asst. city atty., City of Birmingham, for appellant.

Candice J. Shockley of Holliman, Shockley & Kelly, Pelham, for appellee.


COOK, Justice.

The City of Birmingham appeals from a judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict in favor of Janet Lavert Waits. We affirm.

On May 16, 1991, Waits, a City of Birmingham correctional officer, was assigned to guard inmates in cellblock J-2 of the Birmingham city jail. Waits accompanied the officer whose shift was ending into cellblock J-2, to see how much cleaning the inmates would need to do on Waits's shift. The officers smelled "julep," an...

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