EX PARTE BLANKENSHIP

1030484.

893 So.2d 303 (2004)

Ex parte Talladega County Deputy Sheriff Jason Lowell BLANKENSHIP and the Talladega County Commission. (In re Lavone P. Higginbotham, individually and as personal representative of the estate of Charles E. Higginbotham, deceased, v. Jason Lowell Blankenship, an individual, and the Talladega County Commission, a political subdivision, et al.)

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 7, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. Royer, Jr., of Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne, P.C., Huntsville; and Barry D. Vaughn of Proctor & Vaughn, Sylacauga, for petitioners.

Robert Rumsey of Rumsey & Wilkins, Sylacauga, for respondent.

Kendrick E. Webb and Bart Harmon of Webb & Eley, P.C., Montgomery, for amicus curiae Association of County Commissions of Alabama, in support of the petitioner Talladega County Commission.

J. Jeffery Rich of Sirote & Permutt, P.C., Huntsville, for amici curiae Madison County Sheriff Blake Dorning and Madison County, in support of the petitioners.


WOODALL, Justice.

Talladega County Deputy Sheriff Jason Lowell Blankenship and the Talladega County Commission ("the County") petition this Court for a writ of mandamus, directing the Talladega Circuit Court to dismiss the action brought against them by Lavone P. Higginbotham, individually and as the personal representative of the estate of Charles E. Higginbotham, deceased, seeking damages for personal injuries arising out of an automobile accident involving a vehicle...

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