Tennessee Coal, Iron & Ry. Co. v. Kelly
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Birmingham City Court. ■ Heard before Hon. C. C. Nesmiti-i. Action by Henry C. Kelly against the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railway Company, for damages for procuring his discharge from employment and for libel and slander. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from the Birmingham City Court. ■ Heard before Hon. C. C. Nesmiti-i. Action by Henry C. Kelly against the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railway Company, for damages for procuring his discharge from employment and for libel and slander. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. The court erred in admitting the letters signed by Allen and Win-gate, also in permitting the plaintiff to show that water ivas supplied from appellant’s mines to the sawmill of Waggoner & Hannon, as this Avas entirely immaterial to any issue in the case. The most that could be said, of it was an abrogation of the…
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
Waggoner & Hannon, a partnership, were operating a sawmill on the lands of the defendant company, a corporation, which was engaged in the business of mining coal and iron ore, operating furnaces, etc. Waggoner & Hannon were sawing the timber of the defendant, for the defendant, for which they were paid so much per thousand. Waggoner & Hannon employed and discharged their own men; but there was some kind of an agreement between them and the defendant, the exact terms of which are not made very certain, to the effect that they would not employ nor retain employes who were not acceptable to the…
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