Hairslip v. Brannum
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Madison Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. J. H. Ballentine. Assumpsit and trover by J. E. Brannum against J. C. Hair-slip. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Madison Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. J. H. Ballentine. Assumpsit and trover by J. E. Brannum against J. C. Hair-slip. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals under Acts 1911, page 450. The facts sufficiently appear.' The following special instructions were denied to defendant: (13) If the jury believe from the evidence that at the time plaintiff made his arrangements with his father, J. S. Brannum, and his brother, Oda Brannum, to work in the crops grown on the Clopton place and on the Whitaker place, he knew that J. C. Hairslip…
1Opinion of the CourtMcclellan, J.
The appellee brought this action against, the appellant, and recovered a judgment for $19.66. The complaint contained four counts. The first and second declared, respectively, upon an account due and unpaid and for money had and received by the defendant to plaintiff’s use. In legal effect, the third and fourth counts are in trover, for the conversion by defendant of plaintiff’s “one-fourth undivided interest in eleven bales of lint cotton and three bales of seed cotton raised by him *216[plaintiff], his father, J. S. Brannum, and Otey Brannum, his brother, on the Joe Whitaker place and Mrs.…
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