Carter v. Calhoun County Bd. of Ed.
Decision Date | 06 May 1977 |
Citation | 345 So.2d 1351 |
Parties | Vergie CARTER v. CALHOUN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al. SC 2175. |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
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.
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:
'Plaintiff realleges the injuries and damages set out in Count One, paragraph 1, of this complaint (allegation of injuries suffered).
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). In pleading an action on a contract implied in fact, the allegations must show the facts and circumstances from which the agreement can be inferred. Wright & Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure: Civil § 1235; Berry v. Druid City Hospital Board, Ala., 333 So.2d 796 (1976).
In Sims v. Etowah County Board of Education, Ala., 337 So.2d 1310, 1312 (1976), the allegations were:
The court, referring to these allegations, said:
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