Court Opinion

ID: 9831125
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:50:11.374973+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:31.550695
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
 Appellants have filed a motion for rehearing and to reform the judgment. We are requested to award a recovery of rents for the time intervening between the date Hudler took possession and the date of the trial. The trial court made no finding on the point, and we regarded the evidence as of such uncertain character as to furnish no basis for fixing the amount of rents, and therefore refused to allow same. Being still of the same opinion, the judgment will be reformed so as to expressly provide that appellants Wagner take nothing by their plea for rents for the period mentioned. The rents accruing after the trial must be demanded, of course, in a separate suit.
We are also requested to adjudge that the sheriff repay to Hudler the money in his hands, and to eliminate from our judgment the award in favor of Hudler against appellants of the sum of $625. In this connection, our attention has been called to the fact-that the appellants paid the sum of $625 into the registry of the court, thus making good their tender. The money in the hands of the sheriff should' have been paid into the registry of the court to await the result of the trial. As an officer of the court was holding money collected under process of the court, the court upon motion would have been authorized to require that such money be paid into the registry of the court. This was not done. The sheriff not being a party to this suit, no judgment can be rendered by this court against him. We therefore conclude that the judgment should be reformed to this extent, that it shall provide that, if the money in the hands of the sheriff is repaid by him to Hudler, such payment shall operate as a satisfaction, to that extent of the judgment herein rendered by this court in favor of Hudler against appellants, and the judgment is further amended as to provide that, upon the satisfaction of said judgment being duly shown, the clerk of the court is authorized to repay to appellants the money paid by them into the registry of the court.
These changes, not being those requested in the motion, will be made upon motion of the court, and said motion of appellants will be overruled.