Blalack v. Blacksher
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Mobile Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Saffold Berney. Action by C. M. Blalack and others against J. J. Blacksher, for damages for injury by an automobile. Judgment for defendants and plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from Mobile Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Saffold Berney. Action by C. M. Blalack and others against J. J. Blacksher, for damages for injury by an automobile. Judgment for defendants and plaintiff appeals. The answers to interrogatories are in the exclusive control of the party taking them, and the court was in error in permitting inquiry by defendant as to interrogatories propounded by plaintiff, as the answers, were the best evidence. — Sec. 4053, Code 1907; So. Ry. v. Hubbard, 116 Ala. 387; Marx v. LienJcauf, 93 Ala. 453. The witness was shown to be familiar with such…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
This is an action of trespass on the case, by the appellants against the appellee, to recover damages to an automobile, the property of the appellants, resulting from a collision with an automobile belonging to appellee, while appellee’s car was being operated by his servant or agent on a public street in the city of Mobile. The case was tried on the complaint as amended, containing five counts, some of the counts ascribing the injury to the negligence of the defendant’s servant or agent in the operation of defendant’s car, while others imputed the injury to the wanton or willful conduct of…
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