Meador & Son v. Standard Oil Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Marengo Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Edward J. Gilder. Assumpsit by the Standard Oil Company against D. J. Meador & Son. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Transferred from the Court of Appeals under Act April 18, 1911 (Laws 1911, p. 450) § 6. The complaint was on the common counts. Plea A set up certain payments and credits as an offset against plaintiff’s demand.
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Appeal from Marengo Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Edward J. Gilder. Assumpsit by the Standard Oil Company against D. J. Meador & Son. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Transferred from the Court of Appeals under Act April 18, 1911 (Laws 1911, p. 450) § 6. The complaint was on the common counts. Plea A set up certain payments and credits as an offset against plaintiff’s demand. The other pleas set up the fact that defendants were operating a sawmill and public gin, and used gasoline as a motive power to run their engine, and that they did buy gasoline from plaintiff for…
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
There is but one assignment of error in this case, and it raises the only disputed question of law involved in the trial, The assignment is as follows: “The court erred in sustaining plaintiff’s objection to the following question to witness Edwin Meador: T will ask you whether or not any com-, plaints were made to the Standard Oil Company or their agents during the season of 1911 and 1912 as to the impurity of the gasoline.’ ” ' ’ .
(1, 2) Some of the questions propounded to the witness, EdT win Meador, and to the defendant’s agent, Green, called for illegal evidence — that is, for the…
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