Foust v. Kinney
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Cullman County; O. Kyle, Judge. Action by W. P. Foust against E. O. Kinney and others in detinue, trespass, and trover. From judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Cullman County; O. Kyle, Judge. Action by W. P. Foust against E. O. Kinney and others in detinue, trespass, and trover. From judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals. The complaint is as follows: (1) Five thousand dollars as damages for the wrongful taking of the following articles of personal property. * * * (2) The plaintiff claims of the defendants the following personal property, * * with the value of the use and hire thereof during detention, viz. * * * (3) Same as count 1, with this added averment: Plaintiff avers that said colt was taken from him by the…
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
The trial was had on several counts of the complaint, declaring in trover, detinue, and trespass to personal and real property.
The judgment entry recites that to counts 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8, as amended, demurrer was sustained; yet it also thereafter recites that count 4 was amended, and that issue was joined “on counts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 of the complaint as amended.” The effect of this recital is that such of the counts on which issue was joined were amended after demurrer had been theretofore sustained, yet the amendments (if made) to the amended counts to which demurrer was so sustained, or the…
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