Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 6-9-2 (2026)
Right of Surety Paying Judgment or Execution.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
The surety paying off such judgment or execution shall have control thereof and the same right to enforce it as the plaintiff would have had, but for the payment.
(Code 1907, §4086; Code 1923, §7801; Code 1940, T. 7, §514.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1981–1981 · leading case: Cameron v. Gunter, 406 So. 2d 964 (Ala. Civ. App. 1981).
Cameron v. Gunter, 406 So. 2d 964 (Ala. Civ. App. 1981). “Hence, those code sections have no application which grant to a surety who pays a judgment a subrogation right to control and enforce that judgment against a cojudgment debtor.”
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