Opinion

Alabama Power Co. v. Holmes

  • 16 Ala. App. 633
  • 80 So. 736
  • 1918 Ala. App. LEXIS 301
Court
Alabama Court of Appeals
Filed
Feb 5, 1918
Status
Published
Author
Brown
On the bench
Brown
Cited by
6 cases
Authority
More cited than 12.2%

The opinion

BROWN, P. J.

[1] The averments of the third count of the complaint, that the defendant’s servants negligently ran the car against the buggy in which the plaintiff was sitting, while it was on West Clinton street in the city of Huntsville, is sufficient to show that the plaintiff was not a trespasser on the defendant’s tracks, and hence that it owed her the duty not to negligently injure her. B. R., L. & P. Co. v. Fox, 174 Ala. 657 , 56 South. 1013 ; B., E. & B. R. Co. v. Feast, 192 Ala. 410 , 68 South. 294 ; Montgomery Street Ry. Co. v. Shanks, 139 Ala. 489 , 37 South. 166 ; B. R., L. & P. Co. v. Clark, 148 Ala. 673 , 41 South. 829 ; Sou. Ry. Co. v. Crenshaw, 136 Ala. 573 , 34 South. 913 .

[2] While charge 1, refused to the defendant, asserts a general principle of law applicable to the case, its refusal in this case was clearly not injurious to the defendant, in view of charges 2 and 5 given at defendant’s instance, which assert the same proposition of law as applied to the evidence' in the case, hyphothesizing the only possible theories upon which the doctrine of unavoidable accident could be applied to the case in hand.

After a careful review of the evidence in the case, we are not able to say that the action of the court in denying the motion for a new trial was erroneous. Cobb v. Malone, 92 Ala. 630 , 9 South. 738 ; Veid v. Roberts, 200 Ala. 576 , 76 South. 934 .

We find no reversible error in the record, and the judgment is affirmed.

Affirmed.

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