Jones v. Alder
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. A. O. Lane. Action by Mrs. Inez B. Jones against Ike Adler. Judgment for defendant on demurrer, and plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. A. O. Lane. Action by Mrs. Inez B. Jones against Ike Adler. Judgment for defendant on demurrer, and plaintiff appeals. The complaint is as follows: Count 1: “Plaintiff claims of the defendant $2,000 as damages, for that heretofore, plaintiff being a party to said contract of lease by which defendant leased plaintiff and her mother one stable No. 1520 Second avenue for occupation by them as a stable, in Birmingham, Ala., defendant in said lease agreed to put floors, fencing in said building, in first-class repair, and it became and was the…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
This action is by the appellant for damages on account of injury to a horse, which, it is claimed, resulted from the failure of the defendant to place suitable floors in a stable which had been leased by the defendant “to plaintiff and another.” In other words, the action is brought by only one of the contracting parties, and the questions raised by the assignments of error relate only to the action of the court in sustaining demurrers to the several counts of the complaint. It will be noticed that each of the counts of the complaint rests upon the failure of the defendant to do what he had…
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