Duke v. Richardson

ROBERTSON, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of an Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure 60(b) motion.

The plaintiffs filed a class action against the defendants in 1984, contending that the plaintiffs had overpaid their taxes and seeking a refund. Subsequently, the class was certified pursuant to A.R.Civ.P. 23(b)(1) and (2), and it included all owners of Class III real property located in Laud-erdale County, Alabama, who filed an application for “current use” evaluation of their property prior to January 1, 1981.

Approximately five years after this case was filed, a consent judgment…