Alabama Farm Bureau Mutual Casualty Insurance v. Wood

LAWSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a final decree in equity granting appellee the relief provided for in § 12, Title 28, Code 1940, as amended, which gives to a plaintiff who has recovered a judgment “for loss or damage on account of bodily injury or death, or for loss or damage to property” a vested interest by way of hypothecation in the amount due an insured by an insurer after the rendition of the judgment against the insured, which statutory right or interest is enforceable only in equity. Macey v. Crum, 249 Ala. 249, 30 So.2d 666; Reed v. Hill, 262 Ala. 662, 80 So.2d 728. Cf. Major…