Southern Railway v. Guyton
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tlie City Court of Birmingham. Tried before the Hon. W. W. Wilkebson. This action was brought by the appellee, Charles H. Huy ton, against the Southern Bailway Company, to recover damages for personal injuries to the plaintiff, alleged to have been caused by reason of the negligence of the defendant. The complaint contained five counts.
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Appeal from tlie City Court of Birmingham. Tried before the Hon. W. W. Wilkebson. This action was brought by the appellee, Charles H. Huy ton, against the Southern Bailway Company, to recover damages for personal injuries to the plaintiff, alleged to have been caused by reason of the negligence of the defendant. The complaint contained five counts. The first count, after alleging that the defendant ivas a railroad company operating a railroad, and that the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant in the capacity of a section hand and Aims so engaged at tlie time of the accident, then…
1Opinion of the CourtSharpe, J.
— This action Avas brought by appellee under the statute knoAvn as the employers’ act, to recover for injuries sustained by him while engaged in operating a hand-car, AAdiich. injuries are alleged to haATe resulted from negligence imputable to the appellant by Avhom he was employed.
The complaint contains five counts which vary only in respect to the kind of negligence averred as having caused the injury. A demurrer was interposed to each of *239the second, third and fifth count, and those to the second and third counts, respectively, were'overruled, and that to the fifth count was sustained. The…
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