State Supreme Court / Ala.

State Docks Commission v. Barnes

Decided October 6, 1932. Arthur B. Foster wrote the opinion for the court.

143 So. 581 · Cited 101 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.

Sloan Shipyards Corp. v. United States Shipping Bd. Emergency Fleet Corporation · 258 U.S. 549
Ex Parte State of New York, No. 1 · 256 U.S. 490
Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · 154 U.S. 362
Pennoyer v. McConnaughy · 140 U.S. 1
Port of Seattle v. Oregon & Washington Railroad · 255 U.S. 56
Mississippi Railroad Commission v. Illinois Central Railroad · 203 U.S. 335
United States v. Strang · 254 U.S. 491
United States Ex Rel. Skinner & Eddy Corp. v. McCarl · 275 U.S. 1
Finnell v. Pitts · 132 So. 2
United States Grain Corp. v. Phillips · 261 U.S. 106
Panama Railroad v. Bosse · 249 U.S. 41
Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · 211 U.S. 210
US Bank v. PLANTERS'BANK · 22 U.S. 904
Kennedy v. Davis · 171 Ala. 609
State Ex Rel. Brooks v. Gullatt · 98 So. 373
Kimmons v. Jefferson County Board of Education · 85 So. 774
Cox v. Board of Trustees of University of Alabama · 161 Ala. 639
Darrington v. Branch of the Bank of Alabama · 54 U.S. 12
Hillman v. City of Anniston · 108 So. 539
Town of Athens v. Miller · 190 Ala. 82
Williams v. City of Birmingham · 121 So. 14
J. B. McCrary Co. v. Phillips · 130 So. 805
Louis Pizitz Dry Goods Co. v. Yeldell · 104 So. 526
Consolidated Indemnity Ins. Co. v. Texas Co. · 140 So. 566
Hughes v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · 134 So. 461

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Patterson v. Gladwin Corp. · 835 So. 2d 137
Hutchinson v. Board of Trustees of University of Alabama · 256 So. 2d 281
Ex Parte Town of Lowndesboro · 950 So. 2d 1203
Alabama State Docks Terminal Ry. v. Lyles · 797 So. 2d 432
Wheeler v. George · 39 So. 3d 1061
Engelhardt v. Jenkins · 141 So. 2d 193
State Docks Commission v. State Ex Rel. Cummings · 150 So. 345
Burks v. Retirement Systems of Alabama · 182 So. 3d 527
Ex Parte Carlisle · 894 So. 2d 721
Jemison, Mendelsohn & James, P.C. v. Carlisle · 894 So. 2d 721
Curry v. Woodstock Slag Corporation · 6 So. 2d 479
Alabama State Docks v. Saxon · 631 So. 2d 943
Deal v. Tannehill Furnace & Foundry Com'n · 443 So. 2d 1213
Sweet v. Wilkinson · 40 So. 2d 427
Aland v. Graham · 250 So. 2d 677
State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Murphy · 186 So. 487
Haley v. Barbour County · 885 So. 2d 783
Ex Parte Alabama Dept. of Transp. · 978 So. 2d 17
Gill v. Sewell · 356 So. 2d 1196
Glass v. Prudential Ins. Co. of America · 22 So. 2d 13
ALABAMA AGR. AND MECHANICAL UNIV. v. Jones · 895 So. 2d 867

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