Meadows v. Pittsburg County Board of County Commissioners

OP ALA, Justice,

with whom SIMMS and HARGRAVE, JJ., join, dissenting.

Today’s opinion holds this appeal timely. Brought here from judgment on jury verdict, it was commenced within thirty days of the filing of a journal entry. Because the court’s opinion (1) ignores extant jurisprudence1 (teaching that an appealable event takes place when an unreserved general jury verdict is received by the clerk) (2) rejects the procedural coequality of public and private tort law, and (3) misapplies the prospectivity of Manning v. State ex rel. Dept. of Public Safety,2 I recede from its holding.

Ronnie Meadows…