CIE Service Corp. v. Smith

460 So.2d 1244 (1984)

CIE SERVICE CORPORATION

v.

Donna SMITH.

No. 83-470.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 14, 1984.

Rehearing Denied December 21, 1984.

Alton R. Brown, Jr. and Michael S. McGlothren of Brown, Hudgens, Richardson, Whitfield & Gillion, Mobile, for appellant.

C. MacLeod Fuller and Thomas M. Taul III, Mobile, for appellee.

The sole issue in this case is whether a security service, an insured, gave timely notice to its insurer concerning a rape which occurred on premises the security service was guarding.

The facts were not disputed. On October 25, 1980, between the hours of 12:30 a.m.…