Court Opinion

ID: 9833978
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:12:01.603547+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:10.126274
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In our opinion we said that defendants in the district court preferred to submit the issue of the four years’ statute of limitation of plaintiff’s cause of action by their exceptions to plaintiffs’ petition rather than by plea, and that we had found no plea of limitation in the answer. In this we were in error. The answer contains a plea of the statute of limitation of four years to plaintiffs’ cause of action. We were looking more to appellants’ motion for a new trial in the district court for errors assigned than to the answer itself. In their motion for new trial in the district court appellants referred to their plea of limitations as “defendants’ special plea or special exception,” and “special plea in bar or special exception.” However, in the opinion, regardless of whether the errors assigned were to the action of the court on the plea, exceptions, or refusal to charge on the pleaded issue of limitation, we expressed our view of the law, which, in our judgment, rules the issue of limitation pleaded.
With the above correction, made at the insistence of appellants, the motions of appellants for rehearing are overruled.