Court Opinion

ID: 9739380
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Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:13:35.450312+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:11.913091
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Opinion on Rehearing
Sharp, J.
The Appellee filed her Petition for Rehearing in this case on March 10, 1971, and therein cited for the first time the case of Taylor v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company, 147 Ind. App. 507, 262 N. E. 2d 399, decided by Division One of this court on September 24, 1970. The case of Taylor v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company was first published on October 16, 1970, in Vol. 22, No. 10 of the Indiana Decisions and was first published on October 21, 1970, in the Advance Sheets of the West Publishing Company in 262 N. E. 2d 399. The Brief of the Appellee was filed in this case on the 29th of December, 1970, and the Oral Argument in this case was held on February 9, 1971. Therefore, the case of Taylor v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company was readily available to counsel for the Appellee more than two months before Appellee’s Brief was filed and before the Oral Argument in this case. This circumstance certainly manifests that good appellate advocacy demands the regular reading of the Advance Sheets. Notwithstanding the citation of this case at a very late point in these proceedings, we feel compelled to distinguish it. Taylor v. *409Indiana Bell Telephone Company is clearly distinguishable from Halkias v. Gary National Bank, 142 Ind. App. 329, 243 N. E. 2d 652, on substantially the same basis that we made in Gwaltney Drilling, Inc. v. McKee, 148 Ind. App. 1, 259 N. E. 2d 710 (1970), which distinction is based upon the natural accumulation of ice and snow in the Halkias case and the artificially created condition Gwaltney and Taylor v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company.
Therefore, the Appellee’s Petition for Rehearing should be and hereby is denied.
Hoffman, C.J., Staton and White, JJ., concur.
Note. — Reported in 266 N. E. 2d 810.