Denson v. Alabama Fuel & Iron Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Shelby Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Hugh D. Merrill. Action by James W. Perkins, as administrator, against the Alabama Fuel &'Iron Company, with intervention by.W. A. Denson. From a judgment for defendant, the intervener appeals.
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Appeal from Shelby Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Hugh D. Merrill. Action by James W. Perkins, as administrator, against the Alabama Fuel &'Iron Company, with intervention by.W. A. Denson. From a judgment for defendant, the intervener appeals. Plea 8 was as follows: That the only contract which inter-vener had with plaintiff to bring said suit was under and by virtue of a certain written contract executed between James W. Perkins, father, and Mary R. Perkins, mother, of interstate, and the sole distributees of his estate, a copy of which contract is hereto attached, marked Exhibit A, and…
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
This cause was heard by the circuit court of Shelby county, and the trial resulted in a judgment for defendant. The facts are in dispute. It is not controverted, however, that on November 18, 1913, two sons of the original plaintiff, James W. Perkins, were killed in an explosion occurring in a coal mine operated by appellee, the Alabama Fuel & Iron Company, a body corporate; that on November 26, 1913, an attorney who was, employed in the law office of intervener was sent to see said Perkins and wife, the sole distributees of intestates, and drew up and had signed by the Perkinses a written…
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