Court Opinion

ID: 9831637
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:15:39.466715+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:36.647374
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
[8,9] Appellees present an insistent motion for rehearing, in which they contend that we were without authority to consider the assignment of error upon which the judgment below was reversed, for the reason that appellants failed at the time of the incoming of the verdict to except thereto because of the jury’s failure to answer the issue. The record fails to show that appellants were present at the time the verdict was returned, but does show that in their motion for a new trial complaint of the failure of the jury to answer the issue was made. But if it be admitted that ordinarily an exception to the consideration of an assignment on the ground stated would be good, we think it too late to now entertain it with favor. On the original hearing no objection of any kind was made to our consideration of the assignment; but appellees endeavored to answer it upon its merits, with the result that we, in fact, did consider and determine the question presented as shown in our original opinion. The rules bearing upon the subject have been promulgated for the purpose of aiding the courts in the orderly disposition of their business and to conserve time, but nothing therein absolutely precludes our consideration of an assignment because of some technical objection in the manner of its presentation, and, this court having already considered the assignment without objection on appellees’ part, will not now reverse our action on the grounds stated.
Appellees in their motion do not attack the conclusion we reached upon the consideration of the assignment, and having, as we think, waived the objection now presented, the motion for rehearing will be overruled.