Supreme Court of Alabama
Ex Parte the Public Parks and Recreation Board of the City of Scottsboro Petition for Writ of Mandamus (in Re: Karon…
December 20, 2024
Summary
The Court granted the Board's mandamus petition and directed the trial court to enter summary judgment for the Board under Alabama's recreational-use statutes. It held that the lodge and adjacent parking lot were appurtenances to the public park and surrounding waters, that the Board's fee-based operations were not profit-motivated commercial recreational use, and that Patrick failed to present substantial evidence that the Board had actual knowledge that the parking-lot depression posed an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily harm. No separate opinion is included in the supplied separate-opinions record.