Court Opinion

ID: 9642232
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:52:41.999887+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:44.913850
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DIAL, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result.
The testimony of Nowland’s attorney that he signed the demand letter “which was placed in a wrapper, correctly addressed with the correct amount of postage and placed into a United States depository for the United States mail,” is direct evidence raising the rebuttable presumption that the letter was received. Southland Life Insurance Co. v. Greenwade, 138 Tex. 450, 159 S.W.2d 854, 857 (1942). The presumption disappeared when evidence of nondelivery was given, but the facts upon which the presumption was based remain in evidence for consideration by the trier of facts. Sudduth v. Commonwealth County Mutual Insurance Co., 454 S.W.2d 196, 198 (Tex.1970); Cooper v. Hall, 489 S.W.2d 409, 415 (Tex.Civ.App.—Amarillo 1972, writ ref’d n.r.e.). The jury’s answer to special issue number nine should not have been disregarded.