Court Opinion

ID: 9828842
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:47:12.528312+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:29:25.664810
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Behearing.
As shown by the original opinion, this cause was reversed and remanded, because, in the opinion of the court, the trial court erroneously construed the contract herein, naming $5,000 as agreed damages for the breach of any one of five conditions of the contract, forming the basis of this suit, to be an agreement for liquidated damages in said amount, and not a contract for indemnity. The case was reversed and remanded for the benefit of appellee so that in another trial he could prove the damages suffered by reason of the alleged breach.
Appellee, in his motion for rehearing, waives the right to recover damages for such breach, and prays the court to modify the former judgment by rendering judgment in favor of appellee in the sum of $242.20, as appellee’s share of the gross receipts from a lease of the motion picture film, and to render judgment against him on his claim for $5,000 liquidated damages.
Construing appellee’s motion for rehearing to be, in effect, a remittitur of the $5,000 allowed by the trial court as liquidated damages, and as appellant, though denying that he could be 'held legally liable on the contract, never questioned 'the correctness of this amount as representing appellee’s portion of the amount due on the rent of the film to exhibitors of the picture, the court therefore grants said motion and directs that judgment, reversing and remanding the cause heretofore entered, be set aside, and that judgment of the trial court be reformed so as to deny appellee recovery of the sum of $5,-000 as liquidated damages, and affirm the judgment as to the item of $242.20, with interest at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum from the date of the judgment in the district court.
Judgment of the trial court is reformed as above indicated and, as reformed, affirmed; costs of this appeal to be taxed against ap-pellee.
Affirmed.