Lawson v. Mobile Electric Co.

Decided February 12, 1920. Anthony D. Sayre wrote the opinion for the court.

85 So. 257 · Cited 64 times

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Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

• Robinson v. Crotwell · 57 So. 23
• Turner v. Southern Power Co. · 69 S.E. 767
• Harris v. Nashville C. & St. Louis R. R. · 153 Ala. 139
• Central of Georgia R. Co. v. Robertson · 83 So. 102
• Mobile Light & Railroad v. Roberts · 192 Ala. 486

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• Alabama Power Co. v. Berry · 48 So. 2d 231
• Brown v. Mobile Electric Co. · 91 So. 802
• Alabama Power Co. v. Emens · 153 So. 729
• Holmes v. Birmingham Transit Co. · 116 So. 2d 912
• Birmingham Electric Co. v. Davis · 13 So. 2d 888
• Commonwealth Life Ins. Co. v. Harmon · 153 So. 755
• Cruse-Crawford Mfg. Co. v. Rucker · 123 So. 897
• Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Maddox · 128 So. 383
• Watts v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. · 100 So. 812
• Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Chambers · 146 So. 524
• City of Mobile v. McClure · 127 So. 832
• Nelson v. Lee · 32 So. 2d 22
• Dorsey v. Dorsey · 66 So. 2d 135
• Cox v. Roberts · 27 So. 2d 617
• Alabama Power Co. v. Bryant · 146 So. 602
• Flagstar Enterprises, Inc. v. Davis · 709 So. 2d 1132
• Greyhound Corporation v. Brown · 113 So. 2d 916
• Byars v. Alabama Power Co. · 172 So. 621
• King v. Aird · 38 So. 2d 883
• Langley Bus Co. v. Messer · 133 So. 287
• Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Jackson · 144 So. 813
• Pollard v. Williams · 191 So. 225
• &198tna Life Ins. Co. v. Norfleet · 169 So. 225
• DeBardeleben v. Tynes · 276 So. 2d 126
• McCarley v. Wood Drugs, Inc. · 153 So. 446

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