Theris v. McConnell

Full title: Doris B. Theris v. Cynde L. McConnell

Court: Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama

Date published: Feb 8, 2002

833 So. 2d 57 (Ala. Civ. App. 2002)

Opinion

No. 2000835.

Decided February 8, 2002.

Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court (CV-99-97)

W.A. Kimbrough, Jr., and Marc E. Bradley, Mobile, for appellant.

Mark A. Newell of Janecky, Newell, P.C., Mobile, for appellee.

PITTMAN, Judge.

AFFIRMED. NO OPINION.

See Rule 53(a)(1) and (a)(2)(E), Ala.R.App.P.; Rule 56(e), Ala.R.Civ.P.; Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Smitherman, 743 So.2d 442 (Ala. 1999); Bradford v. Stanley, 355 So.2d 328 (Ala. 1978); Law v. Gulf States Steel Co., 229 Ala. 305, 156 So. 835 (1934); Alabama Fuel Iron Co. v. Vaughan, 205 Ala. 589, 88 So. 857 (1921); Gulf Red Cedar Co. v. Walker, 132 Ala. 553, 31 So. 374 (1902).

This case was transferred to this court by the supreme court, pursuant to § 12-2-7(6), Ala. Code 1975.

Yates, P.J., and Thompson, J., concur.

Crawley and Murdock, JJ., dissent.

CRAWLEY, Judge, dissenting.

I dissent. In response to the upper-lot owner's motion for a summary judgment, the lower-lot owner filed her deposition. The lower-lot owner's testimony established a genuine issue of material fact on the issue whether an act of God, i.e., heavy rain, caused the flow of surface water onto the lower lot, or whether the flow of surface water was changed from its natural flow and caused to be deposited on the lower lot by construction on the upper lot. Sargent v. Lambert Constr. Co., 378 So.2d 1153 (Ala.Civ.App. 1979); Rule 56(c)(3), Ala.R.Civ.P.

Murdock, J., concurs.