Coleman v. Hamilton Storage Co.

BROWN, Justice.

Action of trespass on the case by the appellant against appellee, to recover damages for personal injury inflicted upon the plaintiff by a collision between a truck of the Hardaway Contracting Company, on which plaintiff was riding as a passenger, and a moving van of the defendant operated by its servant or agent, along the Eutaw-Tuscaloosa highway in Greene county.

There are three counts in the complaint:

The first, ascribing the plaintiff’s injury to the negligence of the defendant’s servant, “while acting within the line and scope of his employment by the said defendant,…