Court Opinion

ID: 9832464
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:56:02.585502+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:47.140767
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellant has filed, a belated but able and earnest motion for rehearing, complaining mainly of the findings of fact by this court. We adhere to the original decision, but in deference to counsel’s vigorous motion, will further discuss- the case for a moment.
Appellant complains bitterly of the finding that he “examined” the car in question before purchasing it. That finding is correct, at least to the extent that appellant observed the car, and made at least a cursory, external inspection of it, and appraised its apparent condition as far as ascertainable from such inspection. The record warrants the conclusion that he made such examination. Certainly he would not be entitled to complain if he did less.
For the first time appellant set out in his motion a great mass of testimony in support of the assignments of error in his brief, but this diligence comes too late in a motion for rehearing. The proper place therefor was in the brief upon the original presentation, by which the parties must be bound.
After reviewing the whole record, we are still unable to escape the conviction that the appeal has been properly decided; but, even if it had been made apparent by appellant’s statements from the record on rehearing that we were in error, we were misled thereto in the original presentation by appellant, who cannot now complain.
Appellant’s motion will be overruled.