Watkins v. Reinhart

BROWN, Justice.

This is an action on the case by the administrator of Anna M. Reinhart, deceased, under the Homicide Act, Code of 1923, § 5696, Code of 1940, Tit. 7, § 123, against appellant Watkins engaged in the business of a common carrier of freight, as defined by the Tidwell Act, Acts of 1932 Extra Session p. 178, Code of 1940, Tit. 48, § 270, and his insurer, to recover damages “for the wrongful act, omission or negligence” causing intestate’s death, charged in the single count of the complaint to have been committed by said Watkins. Hood v. State, 230 Ala. 343, 162 So. 543.

Said count…