EX PARTE WOOTEN

1941859.

681 So.2d 149 (1996)

Ex parte Mozelle WOOTEN. (Re Mozelle WOOTEN v. HOUSTON COUNTY HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY, d/b/a Southeast Alabama Medical Center).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 21, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ron Storey, Dothan, for Petitioner.

Fred W. Tyson, William S. Haynes and N. Wayne Simms, Jr. of Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett, P.A., Montgomery, for Respondent.

Bruce J. McKee of Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, Birmingham, and Jack Drake of Drake and Pierce, Tuscaloosa, for Amicus Curiae Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, in support of Mozelle Wooten.


ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING

SHORES, Justice.

The opinion released February 2, 1996, is withdrawn and the following opinion is substituted therefor.

This trip-and-fall case presents the question whether a hospital visitor is an invitee or is a licensee under the Alabama law of premises liability. The plaintiff, Mozelle Wooten, fell off a curb and was injured in the parking lot of a hospital operated by the defendant and known as the Southeast...

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