Wright v. McCord
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Morgan County ; O. Kyle, Judge. Action by J. T. Wright against H. C. McCord and another for damages for personal injuries. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Morgan County ; O. Kyle, Judge. Action by J. T. Wright against H. C. McCord and another for damages for personal injuries. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. Count 2 is as follows; Plaintiff claims of the defendants the sum of $10,000 as damages for personal injuries occasioned to him by the said defendants, as follows to wit: The plaintiff avers that the said injuries were occasioned by reason of negligonce of the defendant McCord, who was in the service or employment of the master to wit, defendant J. S. Walker, and that said defendant McCord then and…
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
The suit was for personal injury, and resulted in a judgment for defendant.
As originally filed the complaint was in four counts, declaring for failure to use ordinary care to furnish a safe place in which to work, for the negligence of the superintendent in charge of the work in which the injury occurred, for the negligent order of such superintendent that proximately caused the injury, and for a “defect in the said bin, which was connected with and used in the business of the master, to wit, defendant Walker, in connection with which the plaintiff was then and there engaged as an employee of…
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