Legal Opinion

Brown v. Gold Kist, Inc.

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided September 23, 1988No. 86-1481, 86-1656Published

1Opinion of the Court

ADAMS, Justice.

These are consolidated appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in a case involving a three-vehicle accident. The plaintiffs, Mavis Brown and her husband Coy Brown, sued the driver of a tractor-trailer rig, Randall Honea, and his employer, Gold Kist, Inc., for negligence and wantonness. They also sued the driver of a third vehicle, Douglas Lang, for negligence. Judgment was entered for Mavis Brown but against her husband, and against defendant, Lang. Judgment was also entered in favor of the remaining two defendants, Honea and Gold Kist, Inc. The Browns and Lang appeal…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Cannon v. Louisville N. R. Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1949
  2. Wood Lumber Co. v. BruceSupreme Court of Alabama · 1963
  3. Childers v. Ashburn and Gray, Inc.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1981

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