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601 So. 2d 987

Brooks v. Bailey

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided July 24, 1992

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1992-07-24

Decided 1992-07-24

KENNEDY, Justice.

¶1The plaintiff, Jesse James Brooks, appeals a summary judgment in favor of the defendant, Jack Bailey.

¶2The plaintiff sought in the trial court to invoke the provisions of Ala.Code 1975, § 6-2-8, to suspend the operation of the statute of limitations on the claims brought against Bailey. Absent the applicability of § 6-2-8, Brooks’s claims are time-barred.

¶3Section 6-2-8, in pertinent part, permits the suspension of the operation of statutes of limitations where the plaintiff is “imprisoned on a criminal charge for any term less than life.” By Brooks’s own admission he is in prison for life. The provisions of § 6-2-8 do not apply in this case.

¶4AFFIRMED.

HORNSBY, C.J., and MADDOX, SHORES and HOUSTON, JJ., concur.
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