Supreme Court of Alabama, 1918

Campbell v. Clinton

Campbell v. Clinton
Supreme Court of Alabama · Decided November 28, 1918 · Somerville, Anderson, Mayfield, Thomas
80 So. 423; 202 Ala. 341; 1918 Ala. LEXIS 423 (Southern Reporter)

Campbell v. Clinton

Opinion of the Court

SOMERVILLE, J.

Whether or not defendant’s contract with plaintiff included a stipulation insuring the safety of the hired mules, as charged in the third count, was properly submitted to the jury, and the evidence was clearly sufficient to support a finding for plaintiff under that count. But the evidence is utterly without tendency to show that the mule was injured as the result of *342 any negligence on the part of defendant or his servant.

[1, 2] We think the trial court erred in refusing defendant’s requested instructions as to the first and second counts; and, as we cannot know under what count the jury found for plaintiff, the error must work a reversal of the judgment.

Reversed and remanded.

ANDERSON, C. X, and MAYFIELD and THOMAS, XL, concur.

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