BEARDEN v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD CO.

7 Div. 511.

132 So.2d 757 (1961)

J. C. BEARDEN, as Adm'r. v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD CO. et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied September 21, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Riddle & Smith and Philip H. Smith, Talladega, for appellant.

Dixon, Wooten & Boyett, Talladega, for appellees.


STAKELY, Justice.

This is an action under the Alabama Wrongful Death Act, Code 1940, Tit. 7, § 123, brought by J. C. Bearden (appellant), as Administrator of the Estate of Box Bearden, deceased, against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and A. R. Murphree (appellees). Initially a defendant but later stricken as a party was J. P. Hilton.

A good many counts in the complaint were filed in the trial court, but the case was submitted to the jury...

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