Speakman v. City of Cullman

YATES, Presiding Judge.

The plaintiffs, Danny Speakman and 11 other residents whose property abuts or is in proximity to 25.57 acres of land owned by the defendant, Wal-Mart Stores East, Inc., appeal from a summary judgment entered in favor of Wal-Mart and the defendant, City of Cullman, in this rezoning case. This case was transferred to this court by the supreme court, pursuant to § 12-2-7(6), Ala.Code 1975.

On February 18, 2000, Margie Ruth Wood Calvert and Mary Patricia Wood Darby requested that the City of Cullman rezone 25.57 acres of their land from residential (“R-l”) to business…