
    MONTGOMERY BEVERAGE COMPANY, INC., d/b/a Mobile Beer and Wine Company v. Robert C. NORRIS, Sr.
    1020815.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    April 2, 2004.
    Kirk C. Shaw and Richard W. Franklin of Armbrecht Jackson, LLP, Mobile, for appellant.
    Ronald A. Herrington, Jr., Mobile, for appellee.
    Charles B. Paterson and Lance W. Parr of Balch & Bingham, LLP, Montgomery, for amicus curiae Business Council of Alabama, in support of the appellant.
    R. David Proctor and Jennifer L. Howard of Lehr Middlebrooks Price & Proctor, P.C., Birmingham, for amicus curiae Helen Keller Hospital Foundation, Inc., in support of the appellant.
    Tammy L. Dobbs and David T. Wiley of Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC, Birmingham, for amicus curiae Alabama State Council of the Society of Human Resources Management, in support of the appellant.
    Peyton Lacy, Jr., and Christopher A. Mixon of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Birmingham, for amicus curiae Alabama Hospital Association, in support of the appellant.
   PER CURIAM.

Montgomery Beverage Company, Inc., d/b/a Mobile Beer and Wine Company, petitioned this Court, pursuant to Rule 5, Ala. R.App. P., for permission to appeal from the denial of its motion for a partial summary judgment. This Court granted permission to appeal.

In light of this Court’s opinion in Byrd v. Dillard’s, Inc., [Ms. 1021439, April 2, 2004] — So.2d-(Ala.2004), the trial court’s order denying the motion for a partial summary judgment in this case no longer “involves a controlling question of law as to which there is substantial ground for difference of opinion.” Rule 5(a), Ala. R.App. P. Thus, we dismiss the appeal.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

HOUSTON, SEE, LYONS, BROWN, JOHNSTONE, HARWOOD, WOODALL, and STUART, JJ., concur.  