Legal Opinion
Choat v. Kawasaki Motors Corp.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided February 23, 1996No. 1920544PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
On Application for Rehearing
The opinion of May 27, 1994, is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor.
Thomasine Choat appeals from an adverse summary judgment in her action seeking damages for the alleged wrongful death of her daughter, Connie Johnson. We reverse and remand.
The evidence suggests the following: On July 15, 1991, 18-year-old Connie Johnson and her friend Lania Moore were relaxing on inflatable floats approximately 50 feet from the shoreline of a slough in Wilson Lake, an impoundment of the Tennessee River. In the same slough, 13-year-old Michael Fields was operating a…
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