Kress v. Lawrence
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before 1-Ion. C. W. Ferguson. Action by Julia E. Lawrence against S. I-I. Kress and S. H. Kress & Co. From a judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $800, defendants appeal. The first count of the complaint was for an alleged slander uttered by an agent of defendant. This count went out on demurrer.
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Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before 1-Ion. C. W. Ferguson. Action by Julia E. Lawrence against S. I-I. Kress and S. H. Kress & Co. From a judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $800, defendants appeal. The first count of the complaint was for an alleged slander uttered by an agent of defendant. This count went out on demurrer. The second count was for wrongful arrest and detention of plaintiff on the charge of appropriating to her own use money received by her as a clerk of the defendant. The third count was for wrong-_ ful assault on plaintiff and the searching of her person for…
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, J.
The complaint contained three counts. The first count went out on demurrer. Pleas of not guilty were filed to the second and third counts, on which issue was joined. The questions presented for our consideration and argued by counsel arose on exceptions taken by the defendants, appellants here, to the refusal of the court to give certain charges requested in writing by the defendants- and to the giving of certain charges requested by the plaintiff.
Charges 2 and 3, refused to the defendants, and which the defendants insist were erroneously refused, were bad in form, and for that reason, if no…
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