Ex Parte Wooten

ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING

The opinion released February 2, 1996, is withdrawn and the following opinion is substituted therefor.

This trip-and-fall case presents the question whether a hospital visitor is an invitee or is a licensee under the Alabama law of premises liability. The plaintiff, Mozelle Wooten, fell off a curb and was injured in the parking lot of a hospital operated by the defendant and known as the Southeast Alabama Medical Center (SEAMC), while walking toward the hospital to visit her brother, who was a patient there. She sued the authority that operated SEAMC. The trial…