Opinion

Brown v. Corona Coal Co.

  • 208 Ala. 522
  • 94 So. 535
  • 1922 Ala. LEXIS 318
Court
Supreme Court of Alabama
Filed
Oct 26, 1922
Status
Published
Author
Miller
On the bench
Miller, Anderson, Sayre, Gardner
Cited by
2 cases
Authority
More cited than 43.7%

The opinion

On Rebearing.

MILLER, J.

[2]

There are two counts in the complaint. There is evidence affording a basis fdr a recovery by the plaintiff under count 1, charging the defendant with negligence. This being true, tbe court committed reversible error in giving tbe general affirmative charge with hypothesis in favor of the defendant. It did not single out count A, the contract count, but called for a verdict for tbe defendant, if they believed the evidence, as to both counts. This was reversible error (McMillan v. Aiken, 205 Ala. 35 , headnotes 10, 11,

88

South. 135 ), and renders it unnecessary for us to decide whether there is any evidence tending to show that AVilson, the agent of the defendant, had authority to make the contract with plaintiff as alleged in count A.

The application for a rehearing is overruled.

ANDERSON, O. J., and SAYRE and GARDNER, JJ., concur.

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