Oden v. Morgan County Board of Education

RUSSELL, Judge.

Rolland Oden appeals from the trial court’s denial of his Rule 60(b)(6), Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, motion for relief from judgment, and we affirm.

At the outset we note that on appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion is the only reviewable matter 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 Nazarene, 443 So.2d 917 (Ala.1983). Trial courts are granted broad discretion in ruling on Rule 60(b) motions. Jenkins v. American Cast Iron Pipe Co., 454 So.2d 969 (Ala.1984).

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