Brown v. Mobile Electric Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Mobile County; Saffold Berney, Judge. Action by- Harvey W. Brown, as administrator of the estate of Luther I-I. Good, against the Mobile Electric Company, for •damages for the death of his intestate. Judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Mobile County; Saffold Berney, Judge. Action by- Harvey W. Brown, as administrator of the estate of Luther I-I. Good, against the Mobile Electric Company, for •damages for the death of his intestate. Judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendant appeals. The court erred in directing a verdict for tlie defendant. 198 Ala. 623, 73 South. 897; 201 Ala. 630, 79 South. 192; 194 Ala. 338, 70 •South. 7; 175 Ala. 194, 67 South. 23; 196 Ala. 67, 71 South. 422. The court erred in permitting the hypothetical question in the shape in which it was put. 94 Ala. 46, 10 South. 602;…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
Harvey W. Brown, as administrator of the estate of Luther H. Good, deceased, brings this suit for damages against the Mobile Electric Company, a corporation. He alleges, in substance, that his intestate’s death was wrongfully caused by the defendant ; that defendant was furnishing electricity to run a moving picture machine, under contract with intestate and others, and defendant, its agents or servants, while acting in the line and scope of their employment, unnecessarily and negligently charged a wire with which plaintiff’s intestate was likely to come in contact, while operating the…
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