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Show British Corporation Demands Damages Alabama Portland Cement Company Institutes Action, Claiming Sum of $81,400. A bull for damage? aliened in the aggregate ag-gregate toe be $41,400 was tiled In District Dis-trict court yesterday by the Alabama Portland Cement company, limltel, a British corporation, against Thomas C. Cairns it Is an echo of the yult riled :l lew days ago bv Cairaa agalnxt J. Top-ham Top-ham Richardson, In which tin- former i.ilmeil sums aggregating more than 0uo for alleged failure to take over und pay lor certain Stock of the Alabama Portland Cement company under u contract con-tract of purchase. What Petition Alleges. In the petition (lied yesterday the plaliKiff alleges that Cairns, representing himself as a man of experience in the selection of machinery suitable f.u the manufacture of Portland cement and In tho erection of plants for that purpose ami In manufacturing such cement, contracted con-tracted with the plaintiff company In January, Jan-uary, 1901, tO take entllt i huiK'' control and manage Its business and to prepare plans und erect a plant at Demopolla, Ala . and to manage and operate the plant w hen complet' .1 Big- Sum Is Claimed. The plaintiff company alleges that In the discharge of his duties under such employment Cairns did not exercise tho proper skill, care and ability, and was gulltv of negligence In a number of particulars par-ticulars and operated the jlant nt a Iohk. Specific damages ere cUegeti the whole amounting to $m.4". a stated, j. r Bow die Is attorney for tho Alabama Portland Port-land Cement company. Mrs. Rule D. Meeke vvlll gle her famous entertainment of dialect, humorous hu-morous and dramatic reading, and ventriloquism, ven-triloquism, this evening at the First M. B church. Admission. cenls. |
