McDougal v. Alabama Great Southern R. Co.

Where there are separate and distinct torts, inflicting separate and several injuries, each furnishing a separate and distinct cause of action, and to which there may be separate and different defenses, they may be joined in the same complaint, but should be presented by separate counts. Sou. R. R. v. McIntyre, 152 Ala. 223, 44 South. 624; Sloss Co. v. Mitchell, 167 Ala. 226, 52 South. 69; Highland R. R. v. Dusenberry, 94 Ala. 413, 10 South. 274.

Count 4 of the present complaint charges that the defendant’s conductor “wrongfully caused the plaintiff to be carried by and beyond his said…