Stephens & Donaldson v. Pierson
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. Gaston - Guntee. - Action for personal injuries by Sam Pierson against Stephens & Donaldson and others. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendants appeal.
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Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. Gaston - Guntee. - Action for personal injuries by Sam Pierson against Stephens & Donaldson and others. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendants appeal. The complaint is as follows: “Plaintiff claims of defendants $5,000 as damages, for that heretofore, to wit, on the 25th day of September, 1911, defendant were engaged in the business of building or repairing houses in the city of Montgomery, Ala., and were on, to wit, said date, engaged in the business of building or repairing a certain house on Goldthwaite street, in the city of…
1Opinion of the Court
PELHAM, J
The appellants were sued in the trial court by the appellee for $5,000 damages for injuries alleged by appellee to have been received by him as a laborer in the empl'oy of the appellants, while he was engaged in doing certain work in and about remodeling a dwelling in the city of Montgomery, that was in the course of being repaired or remodeled by appellants, as contractors. There was a recovery of $100 against the appellants, and from that judgment and a judgment overruling a motion for a new trial this appeal is prosecuted.
Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, the trial court…
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