Court Opinion

ID: 9833170
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:30:36.067659+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:00.349010
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On Motion for Rehearing.
Both in the motion for rehearing and in an extended written argument accompanying it, the appellee, by reiteration and by unsupported assertion that the appellant, both by pleading and evidence, attacked the mechanical principle upon which the machines were constructed, seeks to justify the trial court’s action • in admitting the testimony of Elmberg, to the effect that no complaints had been received of other machines. The excerpts from the pleading quoted in the motion make it clear that the appellant company did not attack the mechanical principle upon which either of the machines was constructed. In fact, throughout the entire record, and as inferable from the number of machines purchased by appellee, it is clear that it admitted that the mechanical principle was good. The attack made in the pleadings and evidence is by reason of defective construction of the several machines. The issues involved here are in no sense the same as those discussed by Huff, C. J., in Wilson v. Avery Co. (Tex. Civ. App.) 182 S. W. 884, and no amount of repetition or unfounded assertion in the motion or argument can make the rule of evidence in the Wilson Case applicable to Elmberg’s testimony in the instant case. Because of the difference we said in the original opinion, and still say, that the admission of Elmberg’s testimony was highly prejudicial. The evidence was not objected to because it was highly prejudicial, and the original opinion nowhere declares that any such objection was made. Such an objection would not be entertained if the testimony offered were otherwise admissible, and this accounts for the appellee’s attorney’s failure to find such an objection in the recorS. We did not deem it proper to discuss the sufficiency of the evidence in the original opinion; but if the testimony of the witnesses Cobb and Gregg, with reference to the last car, is the same upon another trial and is uncontradicted, it would be sufficient to sustain a judgment for appellant as to that entire shipment.
The' motion is overruled.-.