Reynolds v. Woodward Iron Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. John H. Miller. Action by Minnie Reynolds, as administratrix, against the Woodward Iron Company, for damages for the death of her intestate. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. The facts, as well as some of the written charges refused to defendant, sufficiently appear.
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Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. John H. Miller. Action by Minnie Reynolds, as administratrix, against the Woodward Iron Company, for damages for the death of her intestate. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. The facts, as well as some of the written charges refused to defendant, sufficiently appear. The following charges given to defendant need to be set out: (10) If you are reasonably satisfied from the evidence that deceased knew of the presence of the trolley wire at the place where he was working, and knew that said trolley wire was carrying a current of…
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
— Plaintiff’s intestate was employed in the coal mines of the defendant company, and while so engaged met his death by coming in contact with a trolley wire, which transmitted electric current to propel the tram cars, conveying coal and timbers between the various passages in the mine and the surface. Count 1 of the complaint as amended was for failure to furnish plaintiff’s intestate a reasonably safe place to work, and the second and third counts were, respectively, under the first and second subdivisions of the Employers’ Liability Act *233(Code 1907, § 3910). The defendant replied in short by…
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