Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Carroll
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from City Court of Birmingham. Tried before Hon. H. A. Sharpe. That the action is not for breach of contract, nor for breach of duty growing out of contract. — R. R. Go. v. Doyle, 60 Miss. 977; A. T. & R. R. v. Moore, 11 Am. & Eng. R. R. cases 243 ; LeForest v. Tolman, 19 Am. Rep. 400; McMaster v. R. It.
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Appeal from City Court of Birmingham. Tried before Hon. H. A. Sharpe. That the action is not for breach of contract, nor for breach of duty growing out of contract. — R. R. Go. v. Doyle, 60 Miss. 977; A. T. & R. R. v. Moore, 11 Am. & Eng. R. R. cases 243 ; LeForest v. Tolman, 19 Am. Rep. 400; McMaster v. R. It. Go., 65 Miss. 264; Davis v. N. Y. R. R. 143 Mass. 301; 33 Kan. 83; 98 N. Y. 377 ; 61 Iowa 441; 61 Tex. 432 ; 72 Ind. 220; 10 Ohio St. 121; E. T. V. & G. Rwy. v. Lewis, 14 S. W. Rep. 603 ; 23 N. Y. 465 ; 5 Am. & Eng. Éncyc. 127; 3 lb. 522; 10 S. Rep. 661; 2 Thornp. on Neg. p. 1282. as…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
— The plaintiff "W. D. Carroll is, and was at the time of entering into the service of the defendant, the Alabama Great Southern Bailroad Company, and at the time of being injured in that service, a citizen of Alabama. The defendant is an Alabama corporation operating a railroad extending from Chattanooga in the State of Tennessee through Alabama to Meridian in the State Mississippi. At the time of the casualty complained of, plaintiff was in the service of the defendant in the capacity of brakeman on freight trains running from Birmingham, Alabama, to Meridian, Mississippi, under a contract…
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