Scales v. Central Iron & Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from .Tuscaloosa County Court. Heard before Hon. H. B. Foster. Action by Willis A. Seales against the Central Iron & Coal Company, for damages for injuries alleged to have been received while in its employment. Judgment for the defendant and plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from .Tuscaloosa County Court. Heard before Hon. H. B. Foster. Action by Willis A. Seales against the Central Iron & Coal Company, for damages for injuries alleged to have been received while in its employment. Judgment for the defendant and plaintiff appeals. The court erred in overruling appellant’s motion to strike the pleas filed more than thirty days after service. — Acts 1896-7, p. 267. The court erred in overruling demurrers to plea 3. —Meriwether v. Sayre M. & M. Go., 49 South. 916; So. Ry. Co. v. Guyton, 25 South. 38. The court erred in giving the general charge for the…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
This is an action by the appellant eleventh section of said act provides that defendants the plaintiff while working as a carpenter on the furnace plant of defendant.
The first assignment of error insisted on, is to the action of the court in refusing to strike defendant’s pleas 3, 4, 5, and 6, the contention being that said pleas were not filed within the time prescribed by the special act under which said Tuscaloosa county law and equity court was established. — Acts ■ 1896-97, p. 262. The eleventh section of said act provides that defendants shall appear and demur or plead to the complaint…
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