Curry v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Action for Dunnages for Killing a Hog. Appeal from Hale Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John Moore. This is an action begun by M. Curry as administrator against the Southern Railway Company, claiming damages for killing a hog, the property of intestate. The court sustained demurrers to counts 4 and B, as amended, and from this action of the court this appeal is prosecuted.
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Action for Dunnages for Killing a Hog. Appeal from Hale Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John Moore. This is an action begun by M. Curry as administrator against the Southern Railway Company, claiming damages for killing a hog, the property of intestate. The court sustained demurrers to counts 4 and B, as amended, and from this action of the court this appeal is prosecuted. The pleadings are sufficiently set out in the opinion. — When the former appeal in this case (133 Ala. 482) was reversed by this court the entire judgment in the circuit court was annulled and vacated.- — -Fountain, et al.…
1Opinion of the CourtWeakley, C. J.
— In disposing of this case it will be sufficient to deal with those assignments, of error-which complain of the sustaining of the demurrers to-amended count 4 and count B as last amended, which counts had been filed and amended by leave of the court. We have not been favored with a brief for appellee, and hence are not advised as to which grounds of the demurrers induced the judgment of the court,.nor which are-specially relied on to support the judgment sustaining-the demurrers.
Count 4, as amended, claims damages for the killing of a hog of the plaintiff by an engine of the defendant, which…
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