Southern Railway Co. v. Williams
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Birmingham. Tried before the Hon. William W. Wilkerson. • The fhcts sufficiently appear in the opinion. A. G-. 8. R. R. Go. v. Chapman, 80 Ala. 615, same case, 83 Ala. 454; R. R. Go. v. Moorchead, 57 S. W. Rep. 860; R. R. Co. v. Gray, 65 Tex. 32; Wakefield v. R. R. Co., 37 Yt. 330; 21 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law (2nd Ed.), p. 471, § 3.
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, J.
The appellee, Allen Williams, as administrator, sued the Southern Railway Company to recover damages for the alleged negligent killing of plaintiff’s intestate, one Sam Williams. The complaint contained five counts, the first four being predicated upon isimple negligence, and the fifth upon intentional wrong. With this last count we have nothing to do, since no questions are raised on it. In each of the first four counts it is averred that the injury complained of occurred, at the crossing of the' defendant’s railroad tracks with the tracks' of another and different railroad. In the first and…
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