Birmingham & Atlantic R. R. v. Norris
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Clair Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John W. Inzer. Action by'Malissa F. Norris against the Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion. The following charges were refused the defendant: Affirmative charge as to the first count.
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Appeal from St. Clair Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John W. Inzer. Action by'Malissa F. Norris against the Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion. The following charges were refused the defendant: Affirmative charge as to the first count. (2) “The Court charges you, gentlemen of the jury, that if you find from the evidence that plaintiff had entered the car door before she receives her alleged injuries, then you cannot find for plaintiff under the allegations in the first count of the…
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J.
The appellee, the plaintiff in the court below, brought an action against appellant, the defendant in the court below, to recover damages for injuries, alleged to have resulted from the negligence of the appellant, and alleged to have been sustained while she was the passenger of appellant and engaged in the act of boarding appellant’s coach.
In its first assignment of error the appellant insists that the trial court erred in permitting appellee’s counsel to ask her the question, “Do you find yourself more nervous now than before?” and it is insisted that nervousness, or…
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