Adams v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. James Q. Smith. This action was brought by Mrs. Margaret Bobinson, a married woman, against James B. Adams, and was commenced on the 19th September, 1877. The complaint contained but a single count, which was in the words : “ Plaintiff claims of defendant, who is, and was at the time of the committing of the grievance hereinafter mentioned, a real-estate agent in the city of Montgomery, in said county and…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. James Q. Smith. This action was brought by Mrs. Margaret Bobinson, a married woman, against James B. Adams, and was commenced on the 19th September, 1877. The complaint contained but a single count, which was in the words : “ Plaintiff claims of defendant, who is, and was at the time of the committing of the grievance hereinafter mentioned, a real-estate agent in the city of Montgomery, in said county and State, six hundred dollars as damages, for that the plaintiff, during the year 1875, intrusted and put under the…
1Opinion of the CourtSomebville, J.
— The complaint in this case alleges a valid contract between the plaintiff and the defendant, the violation by the defendant of a duty growing out of, and imposed on him by it, and a loss consequent thereon. Its averments were, therefore, sufficient, certainly to entitle the plaintiff to the recoverv of nominal charges. — Code (1876), | 2978. If the defendant rented out the plaintiff’s storehouse, contrary to her instructions, a right of action arose *591immediately, in favor of the latter, against the former. The principle is well settled, that when one contracts to do an act for another, and…
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