Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Payne
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. John H. "Miller. Assumpsit by J. D. Payne against the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. John H. "Miller. Assumpsit by J. D. Payne against the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Transferred from the Court of Appeals of Alabama, under section 6 of the act of 1911, p. 450. The following are the counts of the complaint referred: “(2) For $1,999, damages for the breach of an agreement entered into by the defendant on, to wit, * * * by which it promised to allow plaintiff to remove from the property of defendant and sell for his own use and benefit about 4,000 yards of brown stone,…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, C. J.
(1,-2) In an action for the breach -of a contract, the complaint should set out or describe all those parts of the contract which are material for the purpose of enabling the court to form a just idea of what the contract actually was, or which are necessary for the purpose of providing the jury with a criterion in the assessment of damages, with certainty. — 1 Chitty (16th Ed.) 277; Manier & Co. v. Appling, 112 Ala. 666, 20 South. 978; Sloss Co. v. Payne, 186 Ala: 341, 64 South. 617; Elmore, Quillian & Co., v. Parish Bros., 170 Ala. 499, 54 South. 203. It may be that good [pleading would…
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- Southern Railway Co. v. McIntyreSupreme Court of Alabama · 1907
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