Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad v. Haley
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama. This was an action by John A. Haley, as administrator of Walter Haley, deceased, against the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company to recover for the wrongful death of his intestate, under the employer’s liability statute of Alabama. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama. This was an action by John A. Haley, as administrator of Walter Haley, deceased, against the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company to recover for the wrongful death of his intestate, under the employer’s liability statute of Alabama. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. The case is fairly stated by counsel for plaintiff in error as follows: This was an action for damages for the wrongful death of defendant in error’s intestate while in the employment of the plaintiff in error in one of…
1Per curiam
The first assignment of error complains of the ruling of the ¡rial court in permitting a certain ex-convict, who was called as a witness to facts coming within his knowledge and observation while serving' Ids sentence in the employment of the plaintiff in error, to answer that he was one of those convicts who had liberties, called a ‘■trusty.” As the defendant in error was compelled to call (his witness and present him to the jury as an ex-convict, it was proper to inquire of the man himself how far his liberty was restrained, to show Ms obedient and law-abiding conduct as an offset to his…
2Cited by1 opinion
- William Fred Dryden, Sam Alta Dryden, Newman Grady Albright, Edward E. Jackson, Luther Tate Conner and James Daniel v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1956