Legal Opinion

Knight v. State ex rel. Nunn

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama

Decided May 31, 1991No. 2900147PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

RUSSELL, Judge.

Warner Knight appeals from the circuit court’s dismissal of his appeal from the juvenile division of the district court, which had denied his Rule 60(b), Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, motion to set aside an entry of default. We affirm.

The dispositive issue is whether the trial court erred in dismissing Knight’s appeal.

At the outset we note that the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion is the only matter that is reviewable on appeal and that neither the merits nor the correctness of the underlying judgment may be examined in this review. Douglass v. Capital City Church of the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Douglass v. Capital City Church of NazareneSupreme Court of Alabama · 1983
  2. Dobbins v. AndersonCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 1986

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Vogus v. AngryCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 1999

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