WRIGHT v. CLEBURNE COUNTY HOSPITAL BOARD

1151317.

255 So.3d 186 (2017)

Clifford Goodman WRIGHT, administrator of the Estate of Mary Evelyn Wright, deceased v. CLEBURNE COUNTY HOSPITAL BOARD, INC., d/b/a Cleburne County Nursing Home, et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 29, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremy Knowles and Nancy Eady of Morris, Haynes, Wheeles, Knowles & Nelson, Birmingham, for appellant.

Angela Cameron Smith and E. Travis Ramey of Burr & Forman LLP, Birmingham, for appellees.

James W. Porter II and Richard Warren Kinney III of Porter, Porter & Hassinger, P.C., Birmingham, for amicus curiae Utilities Board of the City of Brent, in support of the appellee, Cleburne County Hospital Board.

James E. Hill III and Candace B. Crenshaw of Hill, Hill & Gossett, P.C., Moody, for amicus curiae County Commission of St. Clair County, in support of the appellees.

James E. Hill III and Candace B. Crenshaw of Hill, Hill & Gossett, P.C., Moody, for amici curiae City of Moody, City of Springville, City of Ashville, and City of Argo, in support of the appellees.

Patrick L.W. Sefton and Robert E. Sasser of Sasser, Sefton & Brown, P.C., Montgomery, for amicus curiae Alabama Water and Wastewater Institute, in support of the appellees.

Bernard Harwood of Rosen Harwood, P.A., Tuscaloosa, for amicus curiae Alabama League of Municipalities, in support of the appellees.

William H. Webster of Webster, Henry, Lyons, Bradwell, Cohan & Speagle, P.C., Montgomery; Allen M. Estes of Balch & Bigham, LLP, Birmingham; and Mark D. Hess of Hand Arendall, LLC, Birmingham, for miens curiae Alabama Defense Lawyers Association in support of the appellees.

Kendrick E. Webb , Craig S. Dillard , and Jamie H. Kidd of Webb & Eley, P.C., Montgomery, for amicus curiae Association of County Commissions of Alabama, in support of the appellees.


Pursuant to Rule 5, Ala. R. App. P., this Court granted Clifford Goodman Wright ("Wright"), the administrator of the estate of Mary Evelyn Wright, deceased, permission to appeal from an interlocutory order of the Cleburne Circuit Court ("the trial court"). In that order, the trial court ruled that the $100,000 cap on damages set...

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