Page & Jones v. Barry
Decision Date | 16 November 1916 |
Docket Number | 1 Div. 928 |
Citation | 73 So. 22,197 Ala. 449 |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Parties | PAGE & JONES v. BARRY. |
Appeal from Law and Equity Court, Mobile County; Saffold Berney Judge.
Suit by E.T. Barry against Page & Jones. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal. Transferred from the Court of Appeals under Act of April 18, 1911, p. 450, § 6. Affirmed.
Inge & McLeod, of Mobile, for appellants.
Palmer Pillans, of Mobile, for appellee.
Appellee sued appellants to recover $316.32. The first four counts were the common counts in Code form; and the fifth and sixth in special assumpsit.
The fifth count contains, among others, the following allegations, which raise the material issues:
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The count, continuing, sets out a number of items, and concludes by averring demand, and failure to pay.
The sixth count is practically the same as the fifth, with the additional averment that plaintiff had been compelled to pay the amount sued for to the Union Marine Insurance Company, and that he therefore sued to recover the amount from defendants who were primarily liable therefor. The trial was had on the general issue, payment, the statute of limitations of three years, and one plea setting up a waiver of the instructions of plaintiff to defendants as alleged above, and, lastly, a plea of accord and satisfaction. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
The evidence of plaintiff, if true, supported the verdict and judgment; and that of the defendants tended to deny liability. There are many assignments of error as to rulings on evidence that need not be...
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