WHEELER v. GEORGE

No. 1070484, 1070487 and 1070514.

39 So.3d 1061 (2009)

Helen Kathryn WHEELER et al. v. Randall L. GEORGE et al. Southdale, LLC v. Randall L. George et al. Todd Strange v. Helen Kathryn Wheeler et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 4, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene P. Stutts, Steve R. Burford, Thomas S. Hiley, and Roderick K. Nelson of Spain & Gillon, LLC, Birmingham, for appellants/cross-appellees Helen Kathryn Wheeler et al.

Stephen D. Heninger of Heninger Garrison Davis, LLC, Birmingham, for appellant Southdale, LLC.

Turner B. Williams and John F. DeBuys, Jr., of Burr & Forman, LLP, Birmingham; and Lawrence J. Hamilton II and Dominic C. MacKenzie of Holland & Knight LLP, Jacksonville, Florida, for appellees CSX Transportation, Inc., CSX Real Property, Inc., David W. Hemphill, and J. Randall Evans.

Tyrone C. Means and Ramadanah S. Jones of Thomas, Means, Gillis & Seay, P.C., Montgomery, for appellees Montgomery County, Montgomery County Commission, and William Joseph, Jr.

Robert E. Poundstone IV of Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP, Montgomery; and Joseph B. Mays, Jr., and Marc James Ayers of Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP, Birmingham, for appellees Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, LLC, and Hyundai Motor America.

Albert L. Jordan and Will Booker of Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Birmingham, for appellee/cross-appellant Todd Strange.

Thomas T. Gallion III and Constance C. Walker of Haskell, Slaughter Young & Gallion, LLC, Montgomery; and Jesse P. Evans III of Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC, Birmingham, for appellees Industrial Development Board of the City of Montgomery and Reuben F. Thornton, Jr.

Walter R. Byars and Kimberly O. Fehl, City of Montgomery Legal Department; and Joe Espy III and J. Flynn Mozingo of Melton, Espy & Williams, PC, Montgomery, for appellees City of Montgomery and Bobby Bright.

H.E. Nix, Jr., and Murry S. Whitt of Nix Holtsford GiHiland Higgins & Hitson, P.C., Montgomery, for appellees Don Siegelman, Henry C. Mabry III, and the Alabama Incentives Financing Authority.

Kenneth Smith, gen. counsel, Alabama League of Municipalities; and James W. Porter II of Porter, Porter & Hassinger, P.C., Birmingham, for amicus curiae Alabama League of Municipalities, in support of the appellees.

Mary E. Pons, staff atty., Association of County Commissions of Alabama, Montgomery, for amicus curiae Association of County Commissions of Alabama, in support of the appellee Montgomery County Commission.


On Applications for Rehearing

LYONS, Justice.

The opinion of July 17, 2009, is withdrawn, and the following is substituted therefor.

Helen Kathryn Wheeler and William Newton Phillips, as trustee under the Doris R.H. Phillips Revocable Living Trust Agreement dated February 21, 2001 ("Wheeler/Phillips"), and Southdale, LLC, the plaintiffs in the trial court, appeal from summary judgments entered in favor of all the appellees in case no. 1070484...

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