Ricketts v. Birmingham Street Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Birmingham. Tried before the Hon. H. A. Sharpe. This action was brought by William A. Bicketts, to recover damages for personal injuries in attempting to step from a street car alleged to belong to the defendant corporation.
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Appeal from the City Court of Birmingham. Tried before the Hon. H. A. Sharpe. This action was brought by William A. Bicketts, to recover damages for personal injuries in attempting to step from a street car alleged to belong to the defendant corporation. The injury occurred on the 4th March, 1887, and the action was commenced on the 14th July, 1887. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff himself; and issue was joined on these pleas. “On the trial,” as the bill of exceptions states, “the testimony of the plaintiff tended to show that, on the…
1Opinion of the CourtOlopton, J.
Appellant brings the action to recover for injuries suffered by being struck by a street car, in which he had been transported as a passenger, and which he was then leaving. The complaint avers that the defendant, being a corporation incorporated under the laws of Alabama, was the owner of the street railway, over which the car was being run. The defendant does not dispute having, at one time owned and operated the street railway, but seeks to avoid responsibility by alleging that, about a month previous to the injury, it sold the railway to another corporation, which was operating it at the…
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