Mobile Light & R. R. v. Hughes
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Saffold Berney. Action by Edward Hughes, Jr., against the Mobile Light & Railroad Company, for damages to him as a passenger. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Mobile Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Saffold Berney. Action by Edward Hughes, Jr., against the Mobile Light & Railroad Company, for damages to him as a passenger. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The ninth count is as follows: Plaintiff, Edward Hughes, Jr., * * claims of defendant * * * the sum of * *, as damages for that heretofore, to wit, on November 16, 1912, while defendant was engaged in the operation and control of electrically propelled street cars along and upon the public streets of the city of Mobile and suburbs thereof, including Spring Hill…
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J.
This case was tried upon the fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth counts of the complaint. The trial court overruled the defendant’s demurrers to the ninth and tenth counts of the complaint, and the action of the trial court in so ruling is here appropriately assigned and pressed upon us as error. The reporter will therefore set out the ninth and tenth counts of the complaint.
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