Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Dickinson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Walker Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. James J. Ray. Action by W. M. Dickinson, a convict, against the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company, for assault and battery. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals.. Plaintiff was a county convict from Walker county,, and was hired to the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company, and worked by them under the regulations prescribed by the state board of convict inspectors for working convicts.
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Appeal from Walker Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. James J. Ray. Action by W. M. Dickinson, a convict, against the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company, for assault and battery. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals.. Plaintiff was a county convict from Walker county,, and was hired to the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company, and worked by them under the regulations prescribed by the state board of convict inspectors for working convicts. The assault and battery charged as having been committed by the defendant grew out of corporal punishment inflicted by the deputy warden for an…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
This is an action for assault and battery, and the appellant contends that, inasmuch as it charges a corporate wrong, the defendant was entitled to the general charge, under the Henry Case, 139 Ala. 161, 34 South, 389, and subsequent cases approving same. Whether the rule there laid down would or would not apply to an action of this character is immaterial, for, if it did, there was evidence from which the jury could infer that the whipping of the plaintiff was inflicted under a rule adopted by the defendant corporation and which was in existence at the time of the whipping. The state board…
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