Alabama Power Co. v. Adams

1 Citing case

  1. Dixie Electric Company v. Maggio

    294 Ala. 411 (Ala. 1975)   Cited 39 times

    ". . . acts or statements which, although subsequent in point of time to a personal injury, follow at once thereafter and serve to characterize the occurrence, or which are done or made under such circumstances as to exclude the possibility of premeditation or design and which are so close to the injury as to be fairly a part of the occurrence, are admissible as part of the res gestae. . . ." [Citing Alabama Power Company v. Adams, 31 Ala. App. 438, 18 So.2d 145 (1944)] In Alabama Power Company v. Adams, supra, the Court of Appeals had the following to say about the rule: