Court Opinion

ID: 9778748
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:19:03.432852+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:12.914331
License: Public Domain

ON APPELLANTS’ MOTION FOR REHEARING
Appellants complain of our failure to notice their contention that, even if they were not entitled to damages for constructive eviction so far as the value of the leasehold was concerned, they were nevertheless entitled to recover as special damages the loss in value of their furniture and fixtures which were in the leased restaurant at the time of the alleged eviction. They argue that, the jury having found in response to Special Issue No. 9 that the reasonable market value of the furniture and fixtures sold by them on August IS, 1962 was $6,000, and since it had been stipulated at the trial that this personal property had been sold by them for $2,900, the difference of $3,100 definitely established the amount of their actual damages.
A careful review of the record discloses that this argument had not been presented to us until the filing of the motion for rehearing.
However, if it had been presented to us on original submission we would have overruled it, as we do now. We of course recognize the rule that a wrongfully evicted tenant may recover such damages as are shown to have been the foreseeable consequence of the eviction, Reavis v. Taylor, Tex.Civ.App., 162 S.W.2d 1030, 1034, wr. ref. w. m., but fail to see how the fact that appellants sold their property for $3,100 less than it was worth can be said to establish liability of the appellees for such loss.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.