State Court of Appeals / Ala. Civ. App.

Howell v. City of Dothan

Decided May 13, 1937. William H. Thomas wrote the opinion for the court.

174 So. 624 · Cited 62 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Town of York v. McAlpin · 167 So. 539
City of Birmingham v. Estes · 159 So. 201
McCary v. McLendon · 195 Ala. 497
Maddox v. City of Birmingham · 168 So. 424
City of Birmingham v. Jones · 153 So. 213
Alabama Fuel & Iron Co. v. Vaughn · 83 So. 323
City of Birmingham v. Weston · 172 So. 643
City of Selma v. Jones · 79 So. 476
Granade v. United States Lumber & Cotton Co. · 139 So. 409
Davis v. Miller-Brent Lumber Co. · 151 Ala. 580
Wood v. Foster · 157 So. 863
Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Higginbotham · 153 Ala. 334
Bloch v. McCown · 123 So. 213
Schneider v. Southern Cotton Oil Co. · 87 So. 97
City of Birmingham v. Prickett · 92 So. 7
Woodstock Operating Corporation v. Quinn · 79 So. 253
Central Iron & Coal Co. v. Vandenheuk · 147 Ala. 546
Town of Linden v. American-LA France & Foamite Industries, Inc. · 167 So. 548
Riggin v. Hogg · 82 So. 341
Maise v. City of Gadsden · 166 So. 795
Crawford v. Union Cotton Oil Co. · 79 So. 299
Fannin v. Trotter · 109 So. 102
Federal Land Bank v. Davis · 152 So. 226
City of Birmingham v. Ingram · 103 So. 599
Samples v. Grizzell · 160 So. 538

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Jerkins v. Lincoln Electric Co. · 103 So. 3d 1
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Gross v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. · 361 N.W.2d 259
Continental Cas. Ins. Co. v. McDonald · 567 So. 2d 1208
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Gray v. Liberty Nat. Life Ins. Co. · 623 So. 2d 1156
American Mut. Liability Ins. Co. v. Agricola Furnace · 183 So. 677
Browning v. City of Gadsden · 359 So. 2d 361
AC, INC. v. Baker · 622 So. 2d 331
Moon v. Harco Drugs, Inc. · 435 So. 2d 218
Gregath v. Bates · 359 So. 2d 404
Employers Insurance Co. of Alabama, Inc. v. Rives · 87 So. 2d 653
City of Fairhope v. Raddcliffe · 263 So. 2d 682
Harris v. City of Montgomery · 435 So. 2d 1207
Downs v. City of Birmingham · 198 So. 231
Federal Land Bank v. Henderson, Black & Merrill Co. · 42 So. 2d 829
Berman v. Wreck-A-Pair Bldg. Co. · 182 So. 54

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