Ex parte Louisville & Nashville R. R.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Certiorari in Supreme Court. Petition by tbe Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company to review by certiorari the decision of the Court of Appeals of Alabama in the case of J. J. Williams against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company.
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Certiorari in Supreme Court. Petition by tbe Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company to review by certiorari the decision of the Court of Appeals of Alabama in the case of J. J. Williams against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. Writ awarded, and the judgment of the court of appeals The rule requiring that all prior and contemporaneous negotiations and agreements concerning the making of a contract to be construed and read with reference to each other, applies to bills of lading as to other contracts, and in the absence of fraud or mistake, it is conclusively presumed that the oral…
1ConcurrenceMayfield, J.
1 concur in the conclusion of the majority, and in most all that is said in the opinion of Justice Anderson/ but desire to add the following:
A more important question could not well be presented to this court than the one here presented — the ques*655tion of the extent of the poiver of this court to review and control the judgments and decisions of the Court of Appeals. All agree that under the Constitution of this state there can be but one Supreme Court. This is necessary to insure uniformity of decisions. If there were, or could be, two or more independent supreme courts, a diversity of…
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