Court Opinion

ID: 9778593
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:13:30.630467+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:12.007999
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ON REHEARING
WILLIAMS, Justice.
Subsequent to the rendition of our original opinion in this case June 22, 1962, appellant filed its motion for permission to file a supplemental brief containing two additional points of error not theretofore contained in appellant’s brief. Appellant cited Rule 431, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure in support of its request. This Rule provides that briefs may be “supplemented at anytime when justice requires upon such reasonable terms as the court may prescribe * * *.” This Rule, together with the adjudicated cases, support appellant’s, contention that after submission and rendition of an opinion, the court may grant leave to file amended briefs including additional points of error not originally presented. Warnasch v. Wagner, Tex.Civ.App., 291 S.W.2d 389; Texas Cities Gas. Co. v. Gomez, Tex.Civ.App., 160 S.W.2d 74; Gillette Motor Transport Co. Inc. v. Wichita Falls & Southern Ry. Co., Tex.Civ.App., 170 S.W.2d 629; Old Line Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Tilger, Tex.Civ.App., 264 *247S.W.2d 557. Appellant’s motion to file supplemental brief is sustained.
By its two points on appeal (being the 14th and 15th points) appellant contends that the trial court erred in overruling its motion for peremptory instruction and also its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict of the jury, and calling upon us to reverse and render the judgment of the trial court. We have given careful consideration to appellant’s points and once again reviewed the entire record. Having done so we arrived at the conclusion that appellant’s points should be overruled. Our previous action in sustaining the various procedural points of error indicate that ends of justice will be better subserved by remanding the case for another trial. London Terrace v. McAlister, 142 Tex. 608, 180 S.W.2d 619; Dahlberg v. Holden, 150 Tex. 179, 238 S.W.2d 699; Godwin v. Texas Employers Ins. Ass’n., 145 Tex. 100, 195 S.W.2d 347; Rule 434, T.R.C.P.
We have also carefully considered appellant’s motion for rehearing and finding the same to be without merit, the same is overruled.