Court Opinion

ID: 9827638
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 17:43:26.351729+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:33.995208
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
The able counsel for appellant have presented an elaborate and forceful contention that we erred in adhering to the conclusion expressed in our opinion on the former appeal that the contract declared upon in this case showed on its face, as a matter of law, an agreement to sell the entire stock of the Olney Ice Company. While we are yet inclined to the view on that question expressed in our opinion in the present appeal, yet we are not so impressed with the materiality of the question as counsel seem to be. If the contract, as a matter of law, as written, does not show an agreement to sell all of the stock, it certainly cannot be correctly said that it, as a matter of law, shows an agreement to sell only the three-fourths share of stock owned 'by Miller. In that event at most the contract must be treated either as ambiguous or as having been mistakenly written. Of these defenses it seems to us appellant was given full opportunity of presentation. Whether the contract be ambiguous or whether a mutual mistake was made in writing the contract materially depends upon whether before the contract -between Miller and Mor-, gan was reduced to writing Miller and Morgan had agreed to the sale and purchase of Miller’s three-fourths of the stock only. This issue was submitted to the jury upon full evidence of all parties to the contract, and by the jury found in favor of the appellees.
*584We therefore feel disinclined to again review or discuss the question or to certify it to the Supreme Court, particularly in view of the fact that a remedy by writ of error is apparently available to appellant. On other questions presented in the motion for rehearing we adhere to what was said by us in our original opinion, and accordingly the motion for rehearing and to certify will be overruled.