Hiller v. Goodwin

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries received by appellee, plaintiff below, while a crated furnace weighing over nine hundred pounds was being ttnloaded at plaintiff’s place of business from a truck operated by appellants, defendants below, as a common carrier of freight from- one point in Alabama to another. The furnace reached.its destination in a haul by defendants to plaintiff. There were verdict and judgment for plaintiff, from which defendants have appealed. No complaint is made as to the amount of the damages awarded.

The complaint alleged that the proximate cause…