Carter v. Calhoun County Bd. of Ed.
| Court | Supreme Court of Alabama |
| Writing for the Court | SHORES; TORBERT |
| Citation | 345 So.2d 1351 |
| Parties | Vergie CARTER v. CALHOUN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al. SC 2175. |
| Decision Date | 06 May 1977 |
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v.
CALHOUN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al.
Betty C. Love of Love, Love, Lawrence & Burton, Talladega, for appellant.
H. R. Burnham and William Henry Agree of Burnham, Klinefelter, Halsey & Love, Anniston, for appellees.
SHORES, Justice.
This appeal presents a single question: did the trial court err in granting the defendants' motion to dismiss Count Two of the plaintiff's complaint which alleged the following:
'1. On a date prior to March 7, 1975, Plaintiff entered into an agreement with
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defendants, hereinabove named, whereby the Plaintiff was employed to work in the lunchroom of Walter Wellborn School in Calhoun County, Alabama.'2. Under the terms of said agreement, the defendants, hereinabove named, expressly or impliedly promised to furnish the plaintiff with a reasonably safe place in which to work.
'3. On or about March 7, 1975, plaintiff fell to the floor of the lunchroom of Walter Wellborn School, while acting in the service of said Defendants, and suffered the following injuries and damages:
'Plaintiff realleges the injuries and damages set out in Count One, paragraph 1, of this complaint (allegation of injuries suffered).
'4. Said injuries and damages were proximately caused by the breach of the terms of the contract described in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this count by the defendants, in failing to provide the plaintiff with a reasonably safe place in which to work.
'5. Plaintiff realleges paragraph & of Count One (judgment demand).'
The plaintiff is Mrs. Vergie Carter; and the defendants are the Calhoun County Board of Education, et al. Mrs. Carter appealed from the order granting the motion to dismiss Count Two.
Plaintiff concedes in brief that the allegations of Count Two of the complaint that the Board '. . . 'expressly' . . . promised to furnish plaintiff a reasonably safe place in which to work.' are not advanced by the plaintiff as grounds for reversal. It is her contention that the allegation of an implied promise to furnish a reasonably safe place to work is a sufficient allegation of an action based upon breach of an implied contract to withstand a motion to dismiss.
As has been said so often, Rule 8, ARCP, is complied with if the complaint gives the defendant '. . . fair notice of what the plaintiff's claim is and the grounds upon which it rests.' Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41, 47, 78 S.Ct. 99, 102, 2 L.Ed.2d 80 (1957)....
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