Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Dobbs
Supreme Court of Alabama
Action by Sam Dobbs, by next friend, against the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company, for personal injuries. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
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Action by Sam Dobbs, by next friend, against the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company, for personal injuries. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The pleadings sufficiently appear from the opinion, except count C, which alleges the negligent order as follows: Of some person in the service or employment of defendant, whose name is to defendant unknown, to whose orders and directions plaintiff at the time of his injury was bound to conform and did conform, and his injuries resulted in his having so conformed in this: He negligently ordered plaintiff to work in close and dangerous…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Action by appellee, under the Employers’ Liability Law, for personal injury received while in the employment of appellant.
The trial court’s separate' rulings in holding counts A, B, and C of the complaint good against demurrer are assigned for error. Counts A and B, after setting out in a common statement the relation of the parties, that plaintiff was injured by a cable or iron rope striking him while at work for defendant at Bessie, where defendant operated a mine, and that his injury was caused by reason of a defect in the condition of the defendant’s ways, works, machinery, or plant,…
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