Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Harrington
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided April 6, 1984No. 83-28PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Margaret E. Harrington filed a tort action against her husband James W. Harrington for $5,000,000.00 in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County on June 22, 1983. However, on April 14, 1983, Margaret Harrington had filed a divorce action in the Circuit Court of Elmore County, in which she alleged that:
On or about, to-wit, February 4, 1983, James W. Harrington, Jr., the Husband, willfully and wantonly attacked the Wife, shooting her with a gun, causing severe personal injury to her person, rendering her a paraplegic, permanently paralyzed from the waist of her body to her feet. She was caused to…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Terrell v. City of BessemerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1981
- Sessions v. Jack Cole CompanySupreme Court of Alabama · 1963
- Underwood v. JarvisSupreme Court of Alabama · 1978
- Chappell v. BoykinAlabama Court of Appeals · 1960
- Stallworth v. First Nat. Bank of MobileSupreme Court of Alabama · 1983
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3Cited by13 opinions
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- Ex Parte HowleSupreme Court of Alabama · 2000
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