Jackson Lumber Co. v. Trammell
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Covington Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. A. B. Foster. Action by R. H. Trammell against the Jackson Lumber Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Covington Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. A. B. Foster. Action by R. H. Trammell against the Jackson Lumber Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Suit by appellee against appellant to recover a sum claimed by the plaintiff to be due under a contract made between the plaintiff and the defendant on May 1, 1903, and terminating May 1, 1913, by the terms of which the plaintiff was engaged to attend the employees of the defendant company and render them medical and surgical aid and attention during the time the contract was in force, and for which services plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.
The plaintiff (appellee here) seeks to recover for services rendered as a physician, to the employees of the defendant company, under contract for a fixed salary. The defendant is engaged in the operation of a sawmill and the manufacture of lumber at Lockhart, Ala., and as one of the defenses interposed pleaded that it is a corporation, and was not authorized by its character to so contract for the services of a physician.
The substance of the plaintiff’s first replication is set out in the statement of the case, and is to the effect that the defendant company, being engaged in the sawmill…
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