59 So. 334 | Ala. Ct. App. | 1912
-The averments of the first and second counts of the complaint can be construed as alleging the relation of passenger and carrier between the parties to the suit in such a way as to show the duty owing from the latter to the former growing out of such a relationship to have been breached by a wrong done by the defendant, or its conductor, and under the established
The third count of the complaint, however, was clearly subject to the demurrers interposed to it. Construing the allegations of this count most strongly against the pleader, the act of the conductor complained of in putting the plaintiff off at another place than her destination could have been induced by a request upon her part to be put off at that place. The act of the conductor in putting the plaintiff off at this place is not alleged to be wrongful, nor will the averment that it was willfully, wantonly, or intentionally done carry with it such an allegation, by inference or otherwise, when the count is being tested by demurrer and its allegations to be construed most strongly against the pleader. This count makes no averment and contains no facts disclosing the plaintiff’s right to be carried by the defendant company to the particular place styled in the complaint as “the place of her destination,” and it is not averred, nor is it shown by the facts stated, that any duty rested upon the defendant to carry the plaintiff to the point of her destination. It is not shown or alleged that the plaintiff’s destination was on the defendant’s line of railroad, or that the defendant’s conductor had any information or knowledge with respect to the plaintiff’s destination, or that such want of information or knowledge was due to negligence on the part of the
Reversed and remanded.