EX PARTE COMPASS BANK

1971514.

724 So.2d 14 (1998)

Ex parte COMPASS BANK. (Re Compass Bank v. F.B. Richerson).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 25, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael L. Edwards of Balch & Bingham, L.L.P., Birmingham; and David B. Block of Balch & Bingham, L.L.P., Huntsville, for petitioner.

Harvey Elrod of Hutson & Elrod, Decatur, for respondent.

Laurence D. Vinson, Jr., Robert K. Spotswood, and J. Paul Compton, Jr., of Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, L.L.P., Birmingham, for amicus curiae Alabama Bankers Ass'n.


SHORES, Justice.

WRIT DENIED. NO OPINION.

HOOPER, C.J., and ALMON, KENNEDY, and COOK, JJ., concur.

MADDOX and SEE, JJ., dissent.

SEE, Justice (dissenting).

I respectfully dissent from the majority's denial of certiorari review, which allows 140 years of unbroken precedent upholding the common-law doctrine of "presumption of payment" to be effectively overruled. The Court of Civil Appeals clearly erred in its interpretation of the doctrine...

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