BEARD v. MOBILE PRESS REGISTER, INC.

2030441.

908 So.2d 932 (2004)

Madeline BEARD, as administratrix of the estate of Christopher Lawrence, deceased v. The MOBILE PRESS REGISTER, INC.

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied March 11, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia A. Beasley and J. Cole Portis of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., Montgomery, for appellant.

Edward S. Sledge III, Walter T. Gilmer, Jr., and W. Craig Hamilton of McDowell Knight Roedder & Sledge, L.L.C., Mobile, for appellee.


PITTMAN, Judge.

This appeal, transferred to this court by the Alabama Supreme Court pursuant to § 12-2-7(6), Ala.Code 1975, concerns the nature of an employer's liability in the context of an employee's slaying by a co-worker.

On the afternoon of February 5, 2002, Roderick Seals, a mailroom worker who had been an employee of The Mobile Press Register, Inc. ("the employer"), for 11 years, reported to work armed with a pistol after he had consumed four...

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