Legal Opinion

Comer v. Birmingham News Co.

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided November 22, 1928No. 6 Div. 192PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, C. J.

The only attempt of the pleader in the present bill to establish a case for an equitable accounting is upon the theory that, while the accounts are not mutual and are all on one side, they involve matter of great complication and difficulties' in the way of adequate relief at law. Mr. Bomeroy lays down the rule, which has often been approvingly quoted by this court, that a party is entitled to an equitable accounting notwithstanding the nonexistence of other grounds, “where the accounts are all on one side, but there are circumstances of great complication, or difficulties in the way of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Beggs v. Edison Electric Illuminating Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1892
  2. Pollak v. H. B. Claflin Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1903

3Cited by17 opinions

  1. City of Mobile v. McCown Oil Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1933
  2. Foreman v. SmithSupreme Court of Alabama · 1961
  3. Jacksonville Public Service Corp. v. Profile Cotton MillsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1938
  4. Ingram v. People's Finance Thrift Co. of AlabamaSupreme Court of Alabama · 1933
  5. Whitman v. MashburnSupreme Court of Alabama · 1970

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