Court Opinion

ID: 9767565
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:21:29.425312+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:31.768619
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OPINION ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
HARBISON, Justice.
A thoughtful petition for rehearing has been filed on behalf of the appellee, Oman Construction Company, Inc., to which the Court has given careful consideration. Many of the issues raised in the petition, however, can be determined only upon a record more fully developed than that before us, which consists only of the allegations of the complaint and a combined motion to dismiss and motion for summary judgment.
With respect to the procedural matter mentioned in the petition for rehearing arising out of the case of Ford Motor Company v. Moulton, 511 S.W.2d 690 (Tenn.1974), this Court on January 22, 1975 has adopted a rule, applicable both to this Court and to the Court of Appeals, covering both pending cases and future cases, which in effect reinstates the procedural rule which was stricken in the Moulton case. This rule deals with the record on appeals in summary judgment cases, and permits the consideration of affidavits and other materials filed prior to the hearing in the trial court, without the necessity of authentication by the trial judge.
The petition for rehearing is denied.
FONES, C. J., and COOPER, HENRY and BROCK, JJ., concur.