Birmingham Ry., Light & Power Co. v. Hunt
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County ; C. B. Smith, Judge.' Action by L. E. Hunt against tbe Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Company for personal injuries while a passenger.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County ; C. B. Smith, Judge.' Action by L. E. Hunt against tbe Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Company for personal injuries while a passenger. The complaint alleges that defendant was engaged on, to wit, December 8, 1915, in tbe operation of a street ear line as a common carrier of passengers in, about, and upon the streets of the city of Birmingham, and to Bessemer, Ala., and that at or near one of its stations on said car line, to wit, a regular station for the letting on and taking off of passengers, plaintiff was thrown violently to the ground and…
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
The suit is for damages for personal injuries sustained by a passenger on one of defendant’s street cars.
[1] The complaint sufficiently avers the engagement of the defendant in the operation of a street car line as a common carrier of passengers, and that the plaintiff was a passenger on one of its cars “at said time and. place” — December 8, 1915 — -and on the car line between the cities of Birmingham and Bessemer, at or near one of its stations on said line, “to wit, Cleveland.” Plaintiff's injury is particularly described, and it is averred that the same was proximately caused “by reason…
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