Supreme Court of Alabama November 15, 1901 (Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Jones)

McCLELLAN, C. J.

There is no merit in the contention for appellant that the complaint did' not aver the negligence counted on with sufficient particularity. The rule is that the duty to exercise care being shown, the failure to perform that duty, the negligence causing *226the injuries complained of may be well averred in the most general terms, little if at all short of the mere conclusions of