Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. McWhorter
Decided May 14, 1908. John Crawford Anderson wrote the opinion for the court.
156 Ala. 269 · Cited 67 times
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- St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. Schumacher · 152 U.S. 77
- Birmingham Railway Light & Power Co. v. Hayes · 153 Ala. 178
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Brown · 121 Ala. 221
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- Southern Ry. Co. v. Gantt · 98 So. 192
- Newman v. Louisville N. R. Co. · 103 So. 856
- L. & N. R. R. v. Calvert · 172 Ala. 597
- Morrison v. Clark · 196 Ala. 670
- Johnson v. Louisville N. R. Co. · 127 So. 216
- Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. Holland · 164 Ala. 73
- Walker v. St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. · 108 So. 388
- City of Birmingham v. Bowen · 47 So. 2d 174
- Kendrick v. BIRMINGHNA SOUTHERN R. CO. · 48 So. 2d 320
- Southern Ry. Co. v. Sherrill · 167 So. 731
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Abernathy · 192 Ala. 629
- Preston v. LaSalle Apartments, Inc. · 3 So. 2d 411
- Rasmussen v. Fresno Traction Co. · 15 Cal. App. 2d 356
- Southern Ry. Co. v. Cates · 100 So. 356
- Illinois Cent. R. Co. v. Martin · 105 So. 805
- Alabama Great Southern R. R. v. Smith · 178 Ala. 613
- Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. Sanders · 82 So. 17
- Southern Ry. Co. v. Milan · 199 So. 711
- Empire Coal Co. v. Martin · 190 Ala. 169
- Manley v. Birmingham Ry. L. & P. Co. · 191 Ala. 531
- Snider v. Alabama Great Southern R. Co. · 97 So. 209
- Alabama Great Southern Railway Co. v. McFarlin · 174 Ala. 637
- Faulkner v. Gilchrist · 143 So. 803
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