Tuscaloosa Ice Manufacturing Co. v. Williams
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tlie Tuscaloosa Law and. Equity Court. Tried before the Hon. James J. Mayfield. The question presented nn the present appeal arose upon the rulings of the trial court in sustaining a demurrer to a plea filed by the defendant. The complaint and the plea interposed thereto by the defendant are set forth at length in the opinion.
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Appeal from tlie Tuscaloosa Law and. Equity Court. Tried before the Hon. James J. Mayfield. The question presented nn the present appeal arose upon the rulings of the trial court in sustaining a demurrer to a plea filed by the defendant. The complaint and the plea interposed thereto by the defendant are set forth at length in the opinion. To this plea the defendant demurred upon .tlie following grounds : “1. For that said plea sets up no facts in bar of plaintiff’s recovery, but is a conclusion of the pleader in that it states the effect of the contract sued on. 2. For that said plea sets up…
1Opinion of the CourtMoOLELLAN, C. J.
B. H. Williams is plaintiff, and The Tuscaloosa Ice Manufacturing Co. is defendant in this action. The complaint is as follows: “The plaintiff claims of the defendant the sum of three hundred and twenty-five dollars with interest from the 1st day of September, 1898, as damages for the breach of a contract or agreement entered into between the plaintiff and defendant on, to-wit, the 1st day of January, 1898, in substance as follows: This agreement made and entered into between the Tuscaloosa Ice Mfg. Co., of which Henry B. Gray is president, of the first part, and B. H. Williams, sole owner of…
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