Legal Opinion
Perkins v. Champion International Corp.
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided March 31, 1995No. 2940058PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
THIGPEN, Judge.
This is a workmen’s compensation ease.1
On July 15, 1992, Bobbie Perkins filed a complaint, alleging that she had suffered an injury on May 21,1990, while engaged in her employment with Champion International Corporation (Champion). Champion answered, pleading, inter alia, that Perkins’s action was barred by the two-year statute of limitations. Champion’s motion for a bifurcated trial to first determine the issue regarding the statute of limitations was granted. In June 1993, the trial court conducted a full evidentiary hearing, ore tenus, on the statute of limitations issue…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- County of Mobile v. BensonCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 1988
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- Lee Co. v. HollandCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 1997