Manistee Mill Co. v. Hobdy
Supreme Court of Alabama
Injury to Person on Track. Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John T. Lackland. Action by Braxton B. Hobdy against the Manistee Mill Company for damages for personal injury. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The fourteenth charge requested is as follows: “The court charges the jury that, even should you find for the plaintiff, he can recover in this action only his actual damages.”
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Injury to Person on Track. Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John T. Lackland. Action by Braxton B. Hobdy against the Manistee Mill Company for damages for personal injury. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The fourteenth charge requested is as follows: “The court charges the jury that, even should you find for the plaintiff, he can recover in this action only his actual damages.” In its oral charge the court said : “If you. find for the plaintiff, you should give him, as part of his damages, the reasonable expenses which he had incurred on account of his…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
— This action for damages, on account of a personal injury, was brought by the appellee, on September 14, 1906, against “Manistee Mill Company, a corporation.” There appears in the record, after the organization of the court, the statement that “plaintiff amends his complaint by adding as a party defendant Yastine J. Herlong, doing business under the name of Manistee Mill Company, and alias summons and complaint to be issued to said party and the case continued.” Immediately following is the summons and complaint dated February 4, 1907. Although the order of amendment is not dated, yet it is…
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