McNamara v. Logan
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. Jambs B. Head. Action by Vadre Logan, by next friend, against McNamara Bros., for personal injuries, alleged to have been inflicted by reason of defendants’ negligence.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. Jambs B. Head. Action by Vadre Logan, by next friend, against McNamara Bros., for personal injuries, alleged to have been inflicted by reason of defendants’ negligence. The first count of the complaint, after alleging the injuries inflicted on the plaintiff, further alleged that “plaintiff’s said injuries were caused by reason of defects in the condition of ways, works, machinery, or plant connected with or used in the said business of defendants, to-wit, said cars were defective; said cross entry was defective. The said…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
Yadre Logan prosecutes this action by next friend to recover damages for personal injuries of a permanent nature sustained by him while in the service of McNamara Bros, in consequence of a defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery or plant connected with or used in the business of the defendants. The complaint avers, in the language of the statute, that the causal defect “arose from or had not been discovered and remedied owing to the negligence of defendants, or of some person in the service of the defendants, and entrusted by them with the duty of seeing that the said ways,…
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