Crowley v. City of West End
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal "from Birmingham City Court. - Heard before Hon. Charles Fúrguson. Action by E. Lee Crowley against'the city of West End and others. Judgment' for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal "from Birmingham City Court. - Heard before Hon. Charles Fúrguson. Action by E. Lee Crowley against'the city of West End and others. Judgment' for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. The original complaint contained 'two counts, to which demurrers were interposed and sustained, whereupon'he filed an amended complaint "containihg counts' 3 and 4. It' will suffice' for' this ca'se to 'set out one of these counts, as they are all' very similar ': “Count 3. The plaintiff,' E. Lee Crowley, clairhs of'the defendant the sum of §1,500' dámagfes, for this: That- the' defendants heretofore,…
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, J. —
To constitute actionable negligence, there must be not only causal connection between the negligence complained of and the injury -suffered, but the injury suffered must be by a natural and unbroken: sequence — without intervening efficient cause — • so that, but for the negligence of the defendant, the injury would not have occurred. It must not only be a cause, but it must be the proximate- — that is, the direct and immediate, efficient — cause of the injury.” — West*617ern R. R. v. Mutch, 97 Ala. 194, 11 South. 894, 21 L. R. A. 316, 38 Am. St. Rep. 179; M. & C. R. R. v. Christian…
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- Mobile & Ohio R. R. v. Christian Moerlein Brewing Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1906
- Birmingham Ry. L. & P. Co. v. HintonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1906
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