Woodward Iron Co. v. Andrews
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Birmingham. Tried, before the Hon. William W. Wilkerson. This action was brought by the appellee, James Andrews, against the appellant, the Woodward Iron Company, to recover damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been caused by reason of the defendant’s negligence. The complaint contained seven counts.
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Appeal from the City Court of Birmingham. Tried, before the Hon. William W. Wilkerson. This action was brought by the appellee, James Andrews, against the appellant, the Woodward Iron Company, to recover damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been caused by reason of the defendant’s negligence. The complaint contained seven counts. The first count of the complaint alleges the corporate character and business of defendant and that plaintiff was in its employment as a track hand on its railroad and was discharging the duties of his said employment, on the 11th day of January, 1894, when…
1Opinion of the Court
McCLELLAN, J. —
Two abstracts have been filed in this case. The first presented no question in such a way as that it could be reviewed by the court. That one, it appears, was withdrawn, and another properly presenting the rulings sought to be revised was filed. But h copy of the first one was left in the record, and was supposed by the court to be the abstract upon which the cause'was submitted, the fact that another had been filed not being known to the court; and upon this original abstract the judgment below was affirmed on the ground that nothing for review was shown by the abstract. On an…
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