Bryson v. Phelps

SAMFORD, X

The complaint is in five counts — the first two claims for wantonness and the last three claims for a simple negligence, in that defendant placed or caused, to be placed in a public highway of the County of Montgomery, at a certain named place, nails, and as a proximate result therefrom plaintiff was injured, etc.

Briefly stated, the Walter X Bryson Paving Company, acting through its vice president and alter ego, was engaged'under contract with the Alabama state highway department in the construction of a pavement over and’ along a roadway then under construction, beginning at a…