Ex Parte McNeil

The plaintiff's (petitioner's) case was stated in two counts. The first reads:

"The plaintiff claims of the defendants the sum of $1,000 as damages for that, on and prior to March 14, 1918, the defendant North Alabama Traction Company negligently maintained a pole on the margin of Bank street, a public highway in the city of Decatur, Ala., and on said date, to wit, March 14, 1918, the defendant Alabama Power Company owned or operated a horse and wagon, and on said date plaintiff's automobile was standing or located on said Bank street, and while so located the defendant Alabama Power Company…