Brown v. First Federal Bank

I concur in that portion of the opinion affirming the trial court’s judgment. As to the reversal of the trial court’s judgment concerning Geanie Shannon Brown’s wantonness claim against Jerry Dewayne Brown, I concur in the result. The logic of the principle that bars compensability of mental-anguish damages in a negligence context when no physical injury or immediate risk of physical injury is shown by that plaintiff, a principle most notably summarized by the supreme court in ABA-LAR, Ltd. v. Francis, 716 So.2d 1141,1148 (Ala.1998), arguably has the same force in a wantonness context — after…