Liberty Nat. v. Univ. of Ala. Health Servs.

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• holding that appellate court may not affirm judgment on alternative legal ground if doing so would violate the due-process rights of appellant
• holding that an appellate court can affirm a trial court’s 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
• explaining that an appellate court can affirm a judgment on any valid legal ground
• subject to due-process constraints, appellate courts ‘will affirm the trial court on any valid legal ground presented by the record, regardless of whether that ground was considered, or even if it was rejected, by the trial court’
• \ 'The absence of a necessary and indispensable party necessitates the dismissal of the cause without prejudice or a reversal with directions to allow the cause to stand over for amendment.' \ (quoting J.C. Jacobs Banking Co. v. Campbell , 406 So.2d 834 , 850-51 (Ala. 1981) )
• \ 'The absence of a necessary and indispensable party necessitates the dismissal of the cause without prejudice or a reversal with directions to allow the cause to stand over for amendment.' \ (quoting J.C. Jacobs Banking Co. v. Campbell , 406 So.2d 834 , 850-51 (Ala. 1981) )

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