Rel: 8/30/02 City of Huntsville v. Sheila Tack



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SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA



SPECIAL TERM, 2002



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1010459

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City of Huntsville



v.



Sheila Tack et al.



Appeal from Madison Circuit Court

(CV-00-1050)



SEE, Justice.



AFFIRMED. NO OPINION.

See Rule 53(a)(2)(1) and (a)(2)(F), Ala. R. App. P.

Houston, Lyons, Brown, Johnstone, Harwood, and Stuart, JJ., concur.

Moore, C.J., and Woodall, J., dissent.

WOODALL, Justice (dissenting).

"An intervenor must have a direct, substantial, and legally protectable interest in the proceeding." State Highway Dep't v. Parsons, 623 So. 2d 285, 290 (Ala. 1993). I am convinced that Sheila Tack, Loyce Fisher, and Katherine Nagel had no such interest in this proceeding. Therefore, I must conclude that the trial court erred in granting their Ala. R. Civ. P. 24(b)(2) motion for permissive intervention. I respectfully dissent.

Moore, C.J., concurs.