Horne v. Patton

287 So.2d 824 (1973)

Larry L. HORNE

v.

William B. PATTON.

SC 409.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 6, 1973.

Rehearing Denied January 24, 1974.

Irvin Grodsky, Mobile, for appellant.

James J. Duffy, Jr., and E. L. McCafferty, III, Mobile, for appellee.

BLOODWORTH, Justice.

Plaintiff Larry Horne comes here on a voluntary nonsuit assigning as error the trial court's ruling in sustaining defendant's demurrer to his complaint.

This case is alleged to have arisen out of the disclosure by Dr. Patton, defendant herein, to plaintiff's employer of certain information acquired in the course of a doctor-patient…