Barbour County v. Horn
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henry. Tried before Hon. J. McCaleb Wiley. The complaint in tbis case is as follows: William D. Horn, plaintiff, vs. Barbour County, defendant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henry. Tried before Hon. J. McCaleb Wiley. The complaint in tbis case is as follows: William D. Horn, plaintiff, vs. Barbour County, defendant. The plaintiff claims of the defendant twenty thousand dollars, as damages sustained by him in the loss of his health and in the permanent loss of the use of his limbs, and in the permanent impairment of his capacity to discharge his duties as husband and parent, and to provide for his family and dependents, resulting directly and immediately from his fall from a certain bridge across Lick creek, in Barbour county,…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
This was an action on the case for damages occasioned by a fall from an insecure bridge, built by contract with the commissioners court in 1852, before the Code of Alabama went into effect as the law of the State, There is but one count in the complaint, and this is founded wholly upon our statutes. There was a demurrer to the complaint which assailed both the sufficiency of the statement of facts set forth in the count, and the formality of $ie statement. The demurrer was overruled, and the parties went to trial on the plea of the general issue, with leave to give all proper special matter…
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