Alabama

Civil Procedure

Form 54 – Request for admission of facts

To: ________________________

Attorney for Defendant

Address ____________.

Plaintiff, _________, requests defendant, ________,within thirty days after service of this request to admit the truth of the following facts:

1. [Example] requested in your purchase order of ____, 19__, were delivered by the plaintiff and received by the defendant on , ____________, 19__.

2. State a fact.

3. State a fact.

_____________________,

Attorney for Plaintiff.

[Address of Attorney for Plaintiff]

_____________________.

Committee Comments

The party upon whom a request is served has thirty days in which to respond, except that he is not obliged to respond until 45 days from the date of service of the summons and complaint.

Leave of court must be obtained for any request for admission propounded within 10 days from commencement of the action.

Failure to respond either with a sworn denial or with a written objection within 30 days constitutes an admission of the requested fact.

For the effect of an admission see Rule 36(b).