State Ex Rel. Pritchett v. Pritchett

This appeal concerns the propriety, and the proper interpretation, of a judgment entered by the Montgomery County Circuit Court after a hearing on a motion filed by the State of Alabama (on the relation of Dorothy Pritchett) to enforce a claimed lien upon proceeds disbursed to David Pritchett ("the employee") pursuant to a consent judgment in a workers' compensation action. The entire record in this appeal consists of a 33-page clerk's record and a 10-page reporter's transcript. From that abbreviated record, we have gleaned the following facts. On October 4, 1999, the employee and Whitfield…