Legal Opinion

United Security Life Insurance v. Dupree

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided October 18, 1962No. 6 Div. 881PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The appellant has moved to strike 'the brief of appellee because it was not filed in accordance with court rule, in that the counter argument is not addressed separately'and severally to appellant’s assignments of error.

It is not mandatory that a brief be filed by the appellee. Where the appellant submits the cause on brief and no brief is filed by the appellee, the court con*603siders the cause on its merits on the assumption that appellee is interested in having the judgment sustained. Tri-City Gas Company v. Britton, 230 Ala. 283, 160 So. 896. In the absence of brief for…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Tri-City Gas Co. v. BrittonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1935

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Kentucky Fried Chicken of Morgantown, Inc. v. SellaroWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1975
  2. Georgia Cas. and Sur. Co. v. WhiteSupreme Court of Alabama · 1991
  3. Gray v. Holyoke Mutual Fire Insurance CompanySupreme Court of Alabama · 1974
  4. Georgia Cas. and Sur. Co. v. WhiteSupreme Court of Alabama · 1991
  5. KY. FRIED CHICKEN OF MORGANTOWN v. SellaroWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1975

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