70 So. 763 | Ala. | 1915
“That which creates some benefit to the party promising, or causing some trouble, injury, inconvenience, prejudice, or detriment to the promisee, is a consideration which will uphold a promise.” — Rutledge v. Townsend, 38 Ala. 706, 716; Hixon v. Hetherington, 57 Ala. 165; Henry v. Murphy, 54 Ala. 246, 252; Mott v. Jackson, 172 Ala. 448, 55 South. 528; 3 Enc. Dig. Ala. Rep. p. 301.
[There was evidence to these effects: That plaintiff applied to' the up-town ticket office of the Southern Railway in Selma for a reservation of the drawing room in the through sleeping car operated over this line from Birmingham to Baltimore; that the plaintiff advised an agent in the office of the special circumstances and purposes indicated, which included the need of a drawing room from Selma to Anniston, at which latter point the desired reservation in the through sleeping car was to be taken';] that the time and date of departure from Selma — to make the journey with due regard to Mrs. Meyer’s condition and without, unnecessary delays — was to depend upon the prearranged availability of the accommodations on the through sleeping car to the East, from Anniston; that an agent serving in the office advised the plaintiff that the reservation in the through car could be made in the Birmingham office of the railway company where the space in the through sleeper was handled ;[that the agent in the Selma office communicated by telephone with the Birmingham office and made a reservation, to be taken’at Anniston, of
The judgment must be affirmed.
Affirmed.