Court Opinion

ID: 9816361
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Date Created: 2023-09-01 02:58:39.755727+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:04:34.509906
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ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING
No. 451. Decided December 21, 1950.
By THE COURT:
This matter was submitted to the Court on application for rehearing. While the rules of Court do not now provide for filing such application, this Court will recognize such application and pass on any matter of merit which is raised. Motion of defendant-appellee to strike the application for re-hearing is overruled.
The only matter raised in the application which has not already been considered by the Court and reflected in its opinion is the line of testimony which appears on page 170 of the record where the defendant-appellee testified he had certain information which was not furnished by the Deckers. Plaintiff-appellant cites this line of testimony to show that defendant-appellee did not rely on statements made by the Deckers. However, the record clearly shows that the information which came to the defendant-appellee related to the price at which the beef was sold by the Decker Company to its dealers and had nothing to do with the market price of the beef on hoof.
The testimony does not show a definite and certain spread between the market price of the steers on the hoof and the price at which the packing company delivered beef to the dealers. Whether or not profit was made on the transaction was determined by the weight of the steers and the market price on the hoof at the time of slaughter. One of the elements that entered into the market price was the grade of the cattle at the time of slaughter. Whether the defendant*554appellee relied on the statements made by the Deckers was a factual matter to be determined by the jury.
Application denied.
MILLER, PJ, HORNBECK and WISEMAN, JJ, concur.