South Florida Railroad v. Weese
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Orange county. STATEMENT. Weese, the defendant in error, sued the plaintiff in error for personal injuries received by him while in the employment of the company.
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Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Orange county. STATEMENT. Weese, the defendant in error, sued the plaintiff in error for personal injuries received by him while in the employment of the company. The essential aver-ments in the declaration as to the canse of action are as follows: That on the 6th day of October, A. I). 1886, the defendant company,, plaintiff in error here, was a corporation owning and running a railroad from Sanford, in Orange county, to Tampa, in Hillsborough county, and that plaintiff, Weese, was employed by said corporation as a laborer on said road to wipe and clean…
1Opinion of the Court
Mabry, J.:
The overruling of the demurrer to the declaration is assigned as error here, but counsel for plaintiff in error have not discussed this point in their brief, and we will consider it as abandoned.
The refusal of the court to permit counsel for defendant to file a plea to the jurisdiction of the court before the trial, is another assignment of error. The -court also refused to charge the jury at the instance of *223the defendant, that if the inj ury occurred in Hillsbor-ough county, and not in Orange . county, the verdict should be for the defendant.
The suit was instituted in Orange…
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