Moore v. Reeves

When this Court decided Reed v. Brunson, 527 So.2d 102 (Ala. 1988), I thought that the question of when and under what circumstances a workman could sue a co-employee had been laid to rest.

Today, the majority, by holding that a door locking mechanism on an automobile is a "safety guard or device" within the meaning of § 25-5-11(c)(2), reopens the debate, and, under the cloak of statutory construction, interprets the statute to apply to factual settings obviously not intended by our legislature. The holding today implicitly extends the definition of the term "safety guard or device" so that it…