Thomas v. Freeman Wrecking Co., Inc.

EMBRY, Justice.

This appeal by Lillian W. Thomas is from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict in favor of Freeman Wrecking Company, Inc., which as a matter of law is a judgment in favor of the third party defendant, City of Prichard. Mrs. Thomas brought this action against Freeman Wrecking for compensatory and punitive damages for trespass after warning because it demolished a dwelling house belonging to her.

The City of Prichard sought to condemn Mrs. Thomas’s property under authority of Act 705, 1975 Acts of Alabama. That Act was adopted prior to this court’s decision in Peddycoart v. City…