Case ID: ala-app_17/html/0500-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MERRITT, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(85 South. 876)
    ALLEN v. STRADFORD.
    (6 Div. 659.)
    (Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    June 15, 1920.)
    Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; H. A. Sharpe, Judge.
    Assumpsit by D. F. Allen against Mrs. George Ella Stradford, as administratrix of the estate of M. T. Stradford. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
    Reversed and remanded.
    The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion of the court and from the former report of this case in 201 Ala. 559, 78 South. 955.
    James A. Mitchell, of Birmingham, for appellant.
    If anything, the case made on this appeal is stronger than the case on. former appeal, and plaintiff was entitled to the affirmative charge. 201 Ala. 559, 78 South. 955. See, also, 9 C. J. 591, 598, 599, 623-625, and cases cited.
    Erie Pettus, of Birmingham, for appellee.
    No brief reached the Reporter.
   MERRITT, J.

This ease was before the Supreme Court in the case of Allen v. Stradford, 201 Ala. 559, 78 South. 955, and the opinion of Mr. Justice Somerville was that the plaintiff was entitled to the affirmative charge. Wo have compared the appeal before us with that before the Supreme Court, the evidence being practically the same, the only difference being that the case made by the appellant is stronger here than in the case before the Supreme Court, and the opinion of Mr. Justice Somerville so ably states the law governing the case that we deem it unnecessary to write further; but suffice it to say that the affirmative charge as requested by the plaintiff in writing should have been given, and for this error. the cause must be reversed.

Reversed and remanded.