Martin v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

Plaintiff filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Cooper County seeking to recover the sum of $10,000 damages from the defendant for the alleged wrongful death of Albert Ray Martin. The respondent corporation filed a general demurrer to the plaintiff's petition which the trial court sustained. Plaintiff declined to plead further and judgment was entered against him, whereupon he appealed.

[1] An opinion in this case was adopted at the May Term, 1938, reversing the judgment of the trial court and remanding the case for trial. The respondent filed a motion for rehearing which the court…