Alabama Power Co. v. Hines

This is a suit for damages by J. R. Hines against the Alabama Power Company. There is one count in the complaint. It avers plaintiff, while traveling as a passenger on the street railway cars of the ■defendant, was assaulted and struck with a metallic object by the conductor in charge of this car of the defendant. The defendant plead general issue and self-defense. There was jury and verdict in favor of the plaintiff, judgment thereon by the court, and the -defendant appeals.

The court charged the jury orally as follows:

“There is no dispute in the evidence that while the plaintiff was a…