Legal Opinion

Pollard v. Coulter

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided June 15, 1939No. 6 Div. 402PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BOULDIN, Justice.

Action for personal injuries by a passenger upon a railway train resulting from a derailment of the coach upon which plaintiff was a passenger.

This case arose from the same derailment considered in the case of Pollard, Receiver, v. Williams, 191 So. 225, 1 an action by another passenger on the same train, this day decided.

While the cases were tried at different times, the issues in the main were the same, the tendencies of the evidence touching the liability of the carrier were substantially the same, and the assignments of error insisted upon in the two cases are the same,…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. BaileySupreme Court of Alabama · 1895
  2. Walker v. St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1926
  3. Pollard v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1939
  4. May v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1920
  5. Bryce v. Southern Ry. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina · 1903

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Otwell v. BryantSupreme Court of Alabama · 1986
  2. Southeastern Greyhound Lines v. CallahanSupreme Court of Alabama · 1943
  3. Greyhound Corporation v. BrownSupreme Court of Alabama · 1959
  4. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. v. KinesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1963
  5. Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. BurnsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1950

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