Ladd v. Stockham

(dissenting in case no. 1140407).

I respectfully dissent from the Court’s reversal of the trial court’s decision not to grant Margaret Stockham’s motion for costs and attorney fees.

Stockham, as personal representative of the estate of Herbert Stockham, deceased, argues three grounds upon which she says she is entitled to a reversal of part or all of the trial court’s order denying costs and fees: (1) as to the denial of costs, .Stock-ham cites Rule 54(d), Ala. R. Civ. P., and argues reversible error in the trial court’s failure to set out in its order a written explanation of the basis for its…