Legal Opinion

Hale v. Layer

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided May 17, 1945No. 4 Div. 374PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

FOSTER, Justice.

The Court of Appeals has set out in its opinion the substance of the evidence shown in the record on appeal to that court, and held that the affirmative charge was not due the defendant on that basis, but that the verdict could not be supported against attack by a motion for a new trial. In the first instance that court passed on a legal question: that is, the legal effect of that evidence. That is not involved on the certiorari now before us, but it would be reviewable in that manner if it were involved in the petition. Rainey v. State, 245 Ala. 458, 17 So.2d 687. In holding…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Cobb v. MaloneSupreme Court of Alabama · 1890
  2. Parker v. Hayes Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1930
  3. Rainey v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1944
  4. Schaeffer v. WalkerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1941
  5. Williams v. Birmingham Water Works Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1935

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Stallings v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1946
  2. Clayton v. RagsdaleSupreme Court of Alabama · 1964
  3. Lightfoot v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1948
  4. North Carolina Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. JonesAlabama Court of Appeals · 1947

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