Southern Hardware & Sup. Co. v. Standard Equip. Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Damages from Runaway Team. Appeal from Mobile Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Saffold Berney. Action by the Standard Equipment Company against the Southern Hardware & Supply Company, for damages for injury to a mule, causing his death, alleged to have been inflicted by the negligence of the defendant’s driver, in leaving a team unattended on the streets, which ran away, causing the injury.
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Damages from Runaway Team. Appeal from Mobile Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Saffold Berney. Action by the Standard Equipment Company against the Southern Hardware & Supply Company, for damages for injury to a mule, causing his death, alleged to have been inflicted by the negligence of the defendant’s driver, in leaving a team unattended on the streets, which ran away, causing the injury. Judgment for plaintiff and.defendant appeals. — The court erred in allowing Ramsey to state that he was a man of proper capacity to be foreman of a livery stable and care for animals, etc. His…
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
— This was an action by the appelleeagainst, the appellant for negligence in leaving a team-of horses unattended in the streets of the city of Mobile,, in violation of an ordinance of that city; alleging that in consequence of such negligence the team ran away and injured a mule, the property of plaintiff. The case-has been before this court, on appeal, once before. See report of case, 158 Ala. 596, 48 South. 357.
The bill of exceptions does not purport to set out all, or substantially all of the evidence; consequently there-are assigned, and insisted upon, some errors which we-cannot review…
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