Legal Opinion

Cotten v. ST. BERNARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama

Decided April 10, 2009No. 2080291PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BRYAN, Judge.

Shirley Cotten, the plaintiff below, appeals from a summary judgment in favor of the defendant, St. Bernard Preparatory School (“St. Bernard”). We reverse and remand.

On April 15, 2005, St. Bernard held an arts-and-crafts festival on its campus in Cullman. Cotten, a vendor of crafts, paid St. Bernard a vendor fee that allowed her to sell her crafts at that festival and went onto St. Bernard’s campus to set up a booth and sell her crafts. Cotten walked between her vehicle and the site of her booth several times to transport items from her automobile to her booth. A sidewalk was…

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2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. West v. Founders Life Assur. Co. of FloridaSupreme Court of Alabama · 1989
  2. Ex Parte RizkSupreme Court of Alabama · 2000
  3. Potter v. First Real Estate Co., Inc.Supreme Court of Alabama · 2002
  4. Bruce v. ColeSupreme Court of Alabama · 2003
  5. Ex Parte HelmsSupreme Court of Alabama · 2003

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Sheikh v. Lakeshore FoundationCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 2010
  2. Cotten v. ST. BERNARD PREPARATORY SCHOOLCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 2009
  3. Housley v. LiftOne LLCDistrict Court, N.D. Alabama · 2021
  4. Phillips v. Department of the ArmyDistrict Court, S.D. Alabama · 2025

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