Steele v. Booker
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from _ Circuit Court, Monroe County; John D. Leigh, Judge. Action by J. H. Booker against the Gulf, Florida & Alabama Railway Company for damages for injury to a horse. The complaint, was later amended so as to substitute John T. Steele, as receiver of said Railway, party defendant. Judgement for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from _ Circuit Court, Monroe County; John D. Leigh, Judge. Action by J. H. Booker against the Gulf, Florida & Alabama Railway Company for damages for injury to a horse. The complaint, was later amended so as to substitute John T. Steele, as receiver of said Railway, party defendant. Judgement for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals under Acts 1911, p. 450, § 6. The plaintiff could not amend by eliminating the Gulf, Florida & Alabama Railway Company as sole party defendant and substitute John T. Steele, as the receiver of said' railway company, as sole…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
This action was originally filed by the plaintiff against Gulf, Florida & Alabama Railway Company, a corporation, the complaint alleging that the defendant, through its agents or servants, so negligently operated one of its trains as to proximately cause the death of plaintiff’s horse. After the original defendant had appeared and filed pleas, the plaintiff, with leave of the court and without objection of the original defendant, amended the'complaint by striking out the Gulf, Florida & Alabama Railway Company as a party defendant, and substituting therefor the appellant John T. Steele,' as…
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