Kansas City, M. & B. R. R. v. Sanders
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Walker Circuit Court. Tried before the Hon. James B. Head. Action by Bell Sanders, as administratrix, against the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad Company, for the wrongful death of R. E. Sanders.
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Appeal from Walker Circuit Court. Tried before the Hon. James B. Head. Action by Bell Sanders, as administratrix, against the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad Company, for the wrongful death of R. E. Sanders. Before proceeding to the trial of the cause the defendant made a motion for a change of venue, making affidavit that because of the facts set forth in the affidavit the defendant could not have a fair and impartial trial in the county of Walker, where the trial was then pending in the Circuit Court. There was a great deal of evidence introduced in support of this motion. On…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
Under statutes, of force prior to the Act of February 17, 1885 — Code, § 4485 — it was many times decided that the action of a nisi prim court denying an application for a change of venue was not 'revisable on appeal to this court. It is true that those adjudications were made in criminal cases, but there is no ground for a distinction in this regard between civil and criminal causes; the same considerations which led to the conclusion that an appeal would not lie from a refusal to grant a change of venue in a criminal case fully obtain in respect of, and would necessarily have led to the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Richmond & Danville Railroad v. FreemanSupreme Court of Alabama · 1892
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