CARPENTER v. MOBILE COUNTY

1010448.

841 So.2d 1237 (2002)

Dana CARPENTER, as administratrix of the estate of James Carpenter, deceased v. MOBILE COUNTY et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 28, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Griffin Sikes, Jr., Montgomery; and Frank H. Hawthorne, Jr., of Hawthorne & Hawthorne, Montgomery, for appellant.

Lawrence M. Wettermark and Thomas O. Gaillard III of Galloway, Smith, Wettermark & Everest, Mobile, for appellee Mobile County.


MADDOX, Retired Justice.

This is a wrongful-death action filed against Mobile County, the City of Mobile, and others by Dana Carpenter, the administratrix of the estate of a deceased prisoner of the City of Mobile, who died detained in the Mobile Metro Jail, a jail facility constructed and maintained jointly by the City of Mobile and Mobile County pursuant to the terms of an "Agreement Concerning Joint Jail Facility" ("the agreement"). The agreement was executed by...

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