Drennen Co. v. Jordan
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. E. C. Crowe. Action by Mrs. M. C. Jordan against the Drennen Company, for damages received by the falling of calcimine and glass upon her from the interior of defendant’s store. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. E. C. Crowe. Action by Mrs. M. C. Jordan against the Drennen Company, for damages received by the falling of calcimine and glass upon her from the interior of defendant’s store. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. Counts 1 and 5 were subject to the demurrer interposed. — St. L. & S. F. R. R. Co. v. Sutton, 55 South. 989. The third and fourth counts as amended failed to charge any negligence at all, as the city ordinance made the basis of those counts was without application to the work being done upon the building in question.…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
— Appellee recovered judgment against the appellant corporation. The relation of the parties and the circumstances in which plaintiff received her injuries were these: The Drennen Company, a mercantile corporation, had let to an independent contractor a contract for the erection of its storehouse on a much frequented street in the city of Birmingham.' The contractor had completed the building and had removed temporary structures placed around the outside of the building for the protection of pedestrians on the sidewalk while the storehouse was building. Defendant had accepted the building.as…
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