Woodrow v. Hawving
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Birmingham. Tried before the Hon. W. W. Wilkerson. This was an action to recover an amount due for work and labor done, and was brought by the appellee, Robert Hawving, against the appellant, “John Woodrow, doing business as the Birmingham Steam Dye Works.”
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Appeal from the City Court of Birmingham. Tried before the Hon. W. W. Wilkerson. This was an action to recover an amount due for work and labor done, and was brought by the appellee, Robert Hawving, against the appellant, “John Woodrow, doing business as the Birmingham Steam Dye Works.” The complaint was as follows : “The plaintiff claims of the defendant the sum of one hundred dollars due from him by account on the 1st day of April, 1893. “(2.) The plaintiff claims of the defendant the further sum of one hundred dollars for work and labor done for the defendant by the plaintiff for defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
The appellee, Hawving, sued the appellant, Woodrow, in the justice court, and recovered a judgment for one hundred dollars.. The defendant appealed to the circuit court, where the case was tried dc novo by the court without the intervention of a jury, and the court rendered judgment for the plaintiff for the amount of the judgment recovered in the justice court, and interest thereon as damages. The rule is, that when a case is tried by the court, without a jury, although the trial court may have erred in the admission of evidence, yet if the judgment is sustained by all the legal evidence,…
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