Oakdale Land Company v. Fielding

CATES, Judge.

Oakdale Land Company, Inc., a corporation, which was engaged in the business (at Brighton, Alabama) of owning and ■operating a public cemetery, has appealed from a judgment on a verdict for $50 damages on an action brought by James Fielding in his capacity as administrator of the estate of his grandmother, Cooper Williams. The vehicle for the action below consisted of common counts, i. e., 2A for money had and received, and 3A for account. Oakdale made no motion for a new trial.

The tendencies of the permissible inferences from the evidence were:

In 1945, Cooper Williams’s husband,…