Southern Railway Co. v. Bonner
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. A. A. Coleman. This suit was- originally brought by Pearl O. Bryan as administratrix of the estate of Charles M. Bryan, deceased, against the Southern Bailway Company to recover |30,000 damages for the killing of the plaintiff’s intestate. This is the second appeal ip the case.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. A. A. Coleman. This suit was- originally brought by Pearl O. Bryan as administratrix of the estate of Charles M. Bryan, deceased, against the Southern Bailway Company to recover |30,000 damages for the killing of the plaintiff’s intestate. This is the second appeal ip the case. After the remendment of the cause on the former appeal, the complaint- was amended by substituting for the original plaintiff the present appellee, J. J. Bonner, as administrator de bonis non of tlie estate of diaries M. Bryan, deceased. On the last…
1Opinion of the CourtSharre, J.
This action is to' recover for an alleged wrong causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate, Charles M. Bryan, Avhich occurred in a collision betAveen an engine attached to a train of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company on Avhich Bryan wras engineer, and an engine attached to a train of the defendant company, at a crossing of tracks operated by those companies, res*526pectively. In Southern Railway Company v. Bryan, 125 Ala. 297, títere is a report of the case as it was presented on a former appeal. The last trial was bad under tlxe first count of the complaint which charged that the death…
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