Post v. Duckett

SAM A. BEATTY, Retired Justice.

The defendant, William C. Post, Jr., appealed from the trial court’s refusal to set aside a default judgment entered for the plaintiff, Rhea Charlene Belcher Duckett, as administratrix of her father’s estate. Our supreme court transferred the appeal to this court pursuant to § 12-2-7(6), Ala.Code 1975. We affirm.

Duckett sued Post, Holiday Inn Birmingham-Airport, and Wilson Hotel Management Company, Inc., after Post shot her father, Donald Ray Belcher, outside Celebrations, a lounge located in the Holiday Inn. Belcher died from his gunshot wounds. The trial court…