Pierce v. Pierce
Pierce v. Pierce
Opinion of the Court
WRIT DENIED. NO OPINION.
Dissenting Opinion
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent from the denial of the petition for the writ of certiorari in this case. The Court of Civil Appeals apparently has misapplied Rule 59, Ala. R. Civ. P., by holding that the trial court should have granted the mother’s Rule 59 motion and should have vacated the custody judgment on the basis of the mother’s post-judgment allegations of her postjudgment changes in her own living arrangements, not on the basis of the facts as they existed at the time of trial. Pierce v. Pierce, 884 So.2d 855 (Ala.Civ.App. 2003).
A case must be decided on the basis of the facts as they exist at the time of the trial. While Rule 59 might be properly applied to accommodate newly discovered evidence of the facts as they existed at the time of trial, I respectfully submit that Rule 59 is not intended to accommodate new facts newly created by the moving party after trial. Moreover, even these
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Ex Parte John Charles Pierce. (In Re Katherine H. Pierce v. John Charles Pierce).
- Status
- Published