Legal Opinion

Brown v. City of Fairhope

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided March 7, 1957No. 1 Div. 693PublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MERRILL, Justice.

Appellants filed their complaints, consisting of two counts, against the appellees, the City of Fairhope, a municipal corporation, and The Water Works and Sewer Board of the City of Fairhope, a corporation. The defendants filed separate demurrers to the complaint and these demurrers were sustained. Thereupon, appellants took a nonsuit because of the adverse rulings of the court in sustaining the demurrers to the complaint.

Count One of the complaint is as follows :

“Plaintiffs, who are husband and wife, claim of the defendants the sum of Two Thousand and no/100 ($2,000.-00)…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. City of Birmingham v. CarleSupreme Court of Alabama · 1915
  2. F. W. Woolworth Co. v. EricksonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1930
  3. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. WilkesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1936
  4. City of Montgomery v. FergusonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1922
  5. Wagnon v. PattersonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1954

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3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Jackson v. City of FlorenceSupreme Court of Alabama · 1975
  2. Long v. Jefferson CountySupreme Court of Alabama · 1993
  3. Harris v. Board of Water and Sewer Com'rs of City of MobileSupreme Court of Alabama · 1975
  4. Alabama Power Company v. GuySupreme Court of Alabama · 1967
  5. Scroggins v. Alabama Gas CorporationSupreme Court of Alabama · 1963

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