Postal Tel.-Cable Co. v. Minderhout
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. E. C. Crow. Action by Mrs. Leila Minderhout against the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company for damages for injury received in a collision with one of its messenger boys. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. ’
1Opinion of the CourtPelham, P. J.
The appellee, as plaintiff in the trial court, brought an action for damages against the defendant (appellant) for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained on one of the streets in the'city of Birmingham, as the result of the plaintiff’s having been injured by being run into, or against, by a messenger boy on a bicycle, in the service or employment of the defendant (while acting within the line and scope of his duties as such employee), engaged in or about the delivery of a message. The case was tried on pleas of contributory negligence and the general issue, resulting in a judgment…
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