Warren v. Mobile & Montgomery Railroad
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before tbe Hon. James Q. Smith. This action was brought by Mrs. Louisa J. Warren, as the administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, James F. Warren, to recover damages for the wrongful act which caused the death of her said husband, who was killed on the 9th day of September, 1868, while travelling as a passenger on the Mobile and Great Northern Railroad Company, and whose death was alleged to have been caused by…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before tbe Hon. James Q. Smith. This action was brought by Mrs. Louisa J. Warren, as the administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, James F. Warren, to recover damages for the wrongful act which caused the death of her said husband, who was killed on the 9th day of September, 1868, while travelling as a passenger on the Mobile and Great Northern Railroad Company, and whose death was alleged to have been caused by the negligence or other wrongful act of an officer or agent of the said railroad company. The defendant corporation was…
1Opinion of the CourtB. F. Saffold, J.
— Judgment1 was given against the plaintiff, on demurrer to her complaint. The complaint consists of many counts, and alleges, in substance, that the plaintiff, as administratrix of the estate of James F. Warren, de*585ceased, claims of the defendant, the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad Company, damages ; because her husband and intestate, being at the time a passenger on a train belonging to the Mobile and Great Northern Railroad Company, was killed by the wrongful act, or culpable negligence, of an officer or agent of the said company, unknown to the plaintiff, in causing the engine, locomotive,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad v. HowardSupreme Court of the United States · 1852
- Ready v. Mayor of TuskaloosaSupreme Court of Alabama · 1844
3Cited by3 opinions
- Langhorne v. Richmond Railway Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1895
- Rice v. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1907
- Langhorne v. Richmond City Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1894