Supreme Court of Alabama June 28, 2002, 1010448 (Carpenter v. Mobile County)

lead-opinion

MADDOX, Retired Justice.

This is a wrongful-death action filed against Mobile County, the City of Mobile, and others by Dana Carpenter, the admin-istratrix of the estate of a deceased prisoner of the City of Mobile, who died detained in the Mobile Metro Jail, a jail facility constructed and maintained jointly by the City of Mobile and Mobile County pursuant to the terms of an