Legal Opinion

Johnson v. Johns Service Funeral Parlor, Inc.

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided October 17, 1940No. 6 Div. 671PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BROWN, Justice.

Action on the case by the servant against the master to recover damages for personal injuries received in the service or business of the master. Counts one and three of the complaint are predicated on the provisions respectively of Subdivision two and one of the Employers’ Liability Act, Code 1923, § 7598. Count two charges a violation of the duty imposed by the common law, on the master to furnish the servant a safe place to perform his work. Gentry v. Swann Chemical Co., 234 Ala. 313, 174 So. 530; Langhorne et al. v. Simington, 188 Ala. 337, 66 So. 85.

The pleas were the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Gentry v. Swann Chemical Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1937
  2. Langhorne v. SimingtonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1914
  3. Garing v. BoyntonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1931

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Lathan Roof America, Inc. v. HairstonSupreme Court of Alabama · 2002
  2. Lee v. ShraderSupreme Court of Alabama · 1987

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