Court Opinion

ID: 9833474
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:44:55.699511+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:03.311053
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
After reviewing the record again, we have concluded that we were in error in canceling the deeds except in so far as they purported to convey the interest of appellee in the property. We think they had the effect of conveying whatever right R. W. Gutheridge may have had, subject to the right of appellee, to a partition in this action. R. W. Gutheridge certainly could not transfer the interest of appellee and to which she may be entitled, under the facts developed upon another trial. To that extent our original opinion is reformed.
Appellants contend that, because the pleadings of the appellee did not authorize the court to decree a partition, none should have been made. If either party prays for relief and shows himself entitled thereto by the evidence, the court may grant it, notwithstanding the pleadings of the opposite party do not ask it. This record shows that the court, as well as the litigants, treated it during the trial as .a partition suit However, as held in our original opinion, the value of the property was not alleged, nor was the Pampa property described.
The motion for rehearing is overruled, except as hereinbefore stated.