On Application for Rehearing
The opinion of May 12, 2000, is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor.
Melinda L. Lewis appeals from a judgment dismissing her complaint against Richard H. Fraunfelder. Because the complaint does not state a claim upon which relief can be granted, we affirm.
I.
In October 1996, Lewis filed this action in the Mobile Circuit Court, against Fraunfelder and NationsBank of Delaware, N.A., alleging “civil mail fraud”1 against Fraunfelder and libel against Nati-onsBank. In her complaint, Lewis alleges that: (1) Fraunfelder moved into a house where Lewis had previously lived; (2) Fraunfelder received credit-card applications and other items containing personal information that were mailed to Lewis at that address; (3) Fraunfelder used those documents to obtain credit cards in Lewis’s name and to incur debts in Lewis’s name; and (4) NationsBank, the issuer of one of the credit cards, reported to Equi-fax Credit Information Services that the account information it had previously re*1069ported concerning that card was correct, despite the fact that Lewis had notified, NationsBank that she did not have an account with NationsBank and that someone else had fraudulently obtained the credit card in her name.
In April 1997, in consideration of $20,000, Lewis settled with NationsBank and released her claim against that defendant. The trial court then dismissed Nati-onsBank. In September 1997, Lewis, alleging that Fraunfelder had been adjudged guilty of credit-card fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1029(a)(2), moved the trial court to amend her complaint to add a claim against Fraunfelder for “civil credit-card fraud.” The trial court granted that motion.
In October 1998, Fraunfelder moved to dismiss the complaint as it related to him, asserting that the complaint failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted against him. See Rule 12(b)(6), Ala. R.Civ.P. In January 1999, Fraunfelder moved for a summary judgment, asserting that Lewis had released her claims against him when she released her claim against NationsBank. He supported the motion with copies of the release and the settlement agreement. The case action summary sheet indicates that Fraunfelder’s motion to dismiss was set for oral argument on February 122 and that Lewis’s attorney was “to submit [a] letter brief within a few days.” Lewis’s attorney did not submit a letter brief “within a few days.” On February 17, the trial court entered on the case action summary sheet an order granting Fraunfelder’s motion to dismiss.3 On March 16, Lewis moved the trial court to vacate its February 17 order and filed a brief addressing the issues raised in Fraunfelder’s summary-judgment motion. On June 11, the trial court denied Lewis’s motion to vacate the order of dismissal.
II.
The dispositive issue is whether Lewis’s complaint states a claim against Fraunfelder upon which relief can be granted.
“When reviewing a trial court’s dismissal of a complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, this Court, in determining the sufficiency of the complaint, construes the plaintiffs allegations in favor of the plaintiff and resolves all doubts concerning the sufficiency of the complaint in favor of the plaintiff. See Boswell v. Liberty Nat’l Life Ins. Co., 643 So.2d 580, 581 (Ala.1994). ‘ “ ‘In so doing, this Court does not consider whether the plaintiff will ultimately prevail, only whether he has stated a claim under which he may possibly prevail.’ ” ’ Id. (quoting Grant v. Butler, 590 So.2d 254, 255 (Ala.1991) (quoting Greene County Bd. of Educ. v. Bailey, 586 So.2d 893 (Ala.1991))) (emphasis added in Grant). Thus, ‘ “ ‘a dismissal for failure to state a claim is properly granted only when it appears beyond a doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts entitling him to relief.”” Id.”
Bethel v. Thorn, 757 So.2d 1154, 1157 (Ala.1999).
Lewis concedes that she does not have a fraud claim against Fraunfelder because *1070Fraunfelder did not make to her a misrepresentation on which she relied. She argues, instead, that her claims alleging “civil mail fraud” and “civil credit-card fraud” are cognizable under Ala.Code 1975, § 6-5-370, which, she argues, authorizes a civil action “[f]or any injury ... amounting to a felony.” We disagree.
Ala.Code 1975, § 6-5-370, provides that “[f]or any injury, either to person or property, amounting to a felony, a civil action may be commenced by the party injured without prosecution of the offender.” Section 6-5-370 abrogates the common-law rule of “suspension,” see 1 Am.Jur.2d Actions § 45 (1962), the rule that “a civil action for injury to person or property, amounting to a felony, could not be maintained without prosecution of the offender.” Wilson v. Singer Sewing Mach. Co., 214 Ala. 536, 538, 108 So. 358, 359 (1926). Section 6-5-370 does not create a cause of action; rather, it merely allows a plaintiff to commence a civil action even if the plaintiff does not pursue criminal prosecution of the defendant.
III.
Because Lewis’s complaint fails to state a claim against Fraunfelder upon which relief can be granted, we affirm the trial court’s dismissal of Lewis’s complaint insofar as it relates to Fraunfelder.
APPLICATION FOR REHEARING GRANTED; OPINION OF MAY 12, 2000, WITHDRAWN; OPINION SUBSTITUTED; AFFIRMED.
HOOPER, C.J., and MADDOX, COOK, BROWN, JOHNSTONE, and ENGLAND, JJ., concur.
HOUSTON and LYONS, JJ., concur in the result.