police, they said it was a civil matter. So for upwards of at least a year, year and a half, he still had people living in it, collecting rent from them. “Q. For a year, year and a half? “A. At least a year. He had somebody in it, and I couldn’t get them out. I had contacted [the attorney who was representing me then]. They just kept saying it was a civil matter, so we would have to go to court. Eventually I got them out. But, yeah, for the first portion of it I couldn’t get—tenants were living there, and I couldn’t get them out. Even the tenants there were saying, ‘It’s his. Don’t pay me rent, pay him rent.’ I guess he had already—since he had already pre-established that they were in there. He even came in and ch f Alabama Health Servs. Found., P.C., 881 So.2d 1013, 1020 (Ala. 2003) (<HOLDING>). However, West Wind did not introduce any
holding an appellate court is not limited to the grounds offered by the trial court in support of its decision and may affirm on any ground on which additional factual findings are not required recognizing that the court of appeals can affirm a grant on summary judgment on any basis made apparent by the record holding that an appellate court can affirm a trial courts judgment on any valid legal ground subject to the exception among others that it cannot do so on the basis of an unpleaded affirmative defense holding that an appellate court may affirm a grant of summary judgment on any ground appearing in the record even if the circuit court did not rely on it holding that where the trial court reaches a correct disposition this court can affirm on any basis