Legal Opinion

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Wilkes

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided March 10, 1938No. 6 Div. 175PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a second appeal in this case. See 231 Ala. 511, 165 So. 764, 770, 109 A.L.R. 385.

After it was reversed, and on the second trial, the complaint was amended so as to charge the wrongful act against both defendants, not against one as the employer by reason of the wrongful act of the other as employee. And though the complaint charged a joint act, it was also several, and judgment for one and against the other was not violative of any rule of law. See cases cited under headnote 21 on former appeal. Section 5720, Code. That was the result of the second trial, and no error…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Bessemer Coal, Iron & Land Co. v. DoakSupreme Court of Alabama · 1907
  2. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. WilkesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1936
  3. Southern Ry. Co. v. ArnoldSupreme Court of Alabama · 1909
  4. Birmingham Water Works Co. v. MartiniAlabama Court of Appeals · 1911
  5. Alabama Power Co. v. BassSupreme Court of Alabama · 1928

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3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Morgan v. City of TuscaloosaSupreme Court of Alabama · 1959
  2. Brown v. City of FairhopeSupreme Court of Alabama · 1957
  3. Looney v. DavisSupreme Court of Alabama · 1998
  4. Jarvis v. State Land DepartmentArizona Supreme Court · 1970
  5. Martin v. City of LindenSupreme Court of Alabama · 1995

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