Eich v. Town of Gulf Shores

300 So.2d 354 (1974)

Charlotte EICH, as Mother of her unborn child, Deceased

v.

The TOWN OF GULF SHORES, Alabama, et al.

SC 779.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 12, 1974.

Joseph J. Boswell, Patrick M. Sigler, and B. Nicholas Kearney, Mobile, for appellant.

Donald F. Pierce and Benjamen T. Rowe, Mobile, for appellees.

JONES, Justice.

This appeal comes to us from the Circuit Court of Baldwin County as a result of the granting of a motion to dismiss appellant's complaint on the ground that there is no cause of action for prenatal wrongful death of a stillborn fetus in Alabama.[1]

We hold that such an…