Watson v. Adams
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. E. C. Crowe. Action by Fannie Allen Adams as administratrix, and by John T. Franklin, against T. J. Watson, the first being for the death of her intestate, and the other for personal injury, both actions growing out of the same transaction. There Avere separate judgments for plaintiffs upon a joint trial, and defendant takes an appeal in both cases, hut which are considered together.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. E. C. Crowe. Action by Fannie Allen Adams as administratrix, and by John T. Franklin, against T. J. Watson, the first being for the death of her intestate, and the other for personal injury, both actions growing out of the same transaction. There Avere separate judgments for plaintiffs upon a joint trial, and defendant takes an appeal in both cases, hut which are considered together. Under the circumstances shown by the record this court has authority to reverse the lower court’s action in refusing to set aside the verdict of the…
1Opinion of the CourtMoCLELLAN, J.
These appeals, from a joint, single trial and separate judgments, for the plaintiffs, present identical matter for review, though each appeal, with its assignments, is properly brought up on a separate transcript. The appeals are therefore considered together.
Between 12 midnight and 1 a. m. of January 14, 1912, George B. Adams'and John P. Franklin were struck by a rapidly moving automobile; Adams being killed and Franklin seriously injured. The place of the occurrence *493was in Twelfth street, out several feet from the sidewalk, in the city of Birmingham. At and about the point where the…
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