Britt v. Daniel, 3 Div. 120.
Citation | 159 So. 684,230 Ala. 79 |
Decision Date | 28 February 1935 |
Docket Number | 3 Div. 120. |
Parties | BRITT v. DANIEL. |
Court | Supreme Court of Alabama |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; E. W. Carter, Judge.
Action for damages by S. A. Daniel against J. E. Britt. From a judgment granting plaintiff's motion for a new trial defendant appeals.
Reversed and rendered.
Rushton Crenshaw & Rushton, of Montgomery, for appellant.
Mooneyham & Mooneyham, of Montgomery, for appellee.
The appeal challenges the action of the trial court in setting aside the verdict and granting a new trial at plaintiff's instance.
The suit was for personal injury and property damage growing out of an automobile collision. The trial was had on count 2 and the other pleadings were in short by consent.
The burden is on the plaintiff to show by the evidence the causal connection between the negligence averred and the injury of which complaint is made. Stowers v. Dwight Mfg. Co., 202 Ala. 252, 80 So. 90; Carter v. Ne-Hi Bottling Co., 226 Ala. 324, 146 So. 821.
It is established that, where the losing party is not entitled to recover, in any event, he may not complain of any error committed on the trial. Stephens v. Walker, 217 Ala 466, 471, 117 So. 22; Kelly v. Hanwick, 228 Ala. 343, 153 So. 269.
The defendant was entitled to the affirmative charge on his plea of contributory negligence because on the undisputed testimony the plaintiff failed to give the signal required by law before bringing his car to a full stop within the public street when and where the accident happened.
Section 63 of the Alabama Highway Code (Acts 1927, p. 372) and section 1397 (65), subds. (a) and (b), of the Code of 1928, provide:
See, also, Buffalo Rock Co. v. Davis, 228 Ala. 603, 154 So. 556.
That is to say, the plaintiff as a witness in his own behalf shows his noncompliance with the statute as to giving signals of...
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