Jones v. Gulf States Steel Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Blount County; O. A. Steele, Judge. Action by Lula Jones against the Gulf States Steel Company for damages for personal injuries. From the rulings on the pleadings, plaintiff took a nonsuit and appealed.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Blount County; O. A. Steele, Judge. Action by Lula Jones against the Gulf States Steel Company for damages for personal injuries. From the rulings on the pleadings, plaintiff took a nonsuit and appealed. Suit by appellant against appellee to recover damages for personal injuries alleged, to have been sustained as the result of the explosion of some explosive concealed in a lump of coal when placed upon the fire by the plaintiff, which coal was obtained from defendant’s mine. In a number of the counts it is alleged that employes of the defendant, while acting within…
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.
Appellant, plaintiff in the court below, seeks to recover of the appellee damages sustained by an explosion occurring when a lump of coal was placed upon the fire. In numerous counts of the complaint she seeks recovery in a tort action resting the averments of negligence in that the employés of defendant in the operation of the mine negligently placed, or allowed to remain, some form of explosive in the coal.
[1] The plaintiff did not stand in privity of contract with the defendant, and it is conceded: by counsel for appellant that the general rule of law is that a contractor, manufacturer, or…
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