Court Opinion

ID: 9831399
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:03:38.496276+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:34.363757
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
The court gave an instruction which reads:
“You are instructed that when property is acquired by the exchange of property in which the wife owns an undivided one-half interest as her sole and separate estate, and the community estate of the husband and wife owns an undivided one-half interest, then, in the absence of an express agreement between her husband and the wife to the contrary, made before or at the time of the acquisition of such property, the wife owns an undivided one-half interest in such property so acquired and the community estate of the husband and the wife owns an undivided one-half interest in such property.”
[11,12] In the motion for rehearing it is objected that this charge was erroneous because the agreement between the husband and wife might have been either express or implied; that there is evidence tending to show an implied agreement between the Ochoas, for which reason it was error to require them to show an express agreement. This ground of the motion is not well taken. In the first place, this particular objection is now raised for the first time, and it comes too late. The sixth assignment complains of this charge, it is true, but the propositions in the brief supporting the same do not make the point that it was error to confine the jury to a consideration of the existence of an express contract. Furthermore, the objections to the charge presented in the court below fail to make this objection, except possibly in an inferential and very general way, and this is not a sufficient compliance with chapter 59, Acts 33d Leg. requiring objections to the charge to be presented to the trial court before such charge Is read to the jury.
[13] In the original opinion it was stated that no complaint was made of the proportionate interest in the pro'perty which the court directed should be sold. In the motion for rehearing it is asserted that under the twenty-second and twenty-fourth assignments complaint was so made, and that it was there contended that only four-elevenths interest in the property should have been ordered sold instead of seven-elevenths. We have_ again carefully examined those assignments and supporting propositions as they appear in the brief, and think they are not susceptible of the interpretation placed upon them in the sixth paragraph of the motion for rehearing. Aside from this, the court found that the house built upon the premises after it was conveyed by Ascarate to Mrs. Ochoa was built with community funds. There is evidence to support this finding. In the absence of a request in writing that the issue be submitted to the jury, the courts failure to so submit the same does not present reversible error. Article 1985, R. S. The original opinion, we believe, properly disposes of all questions raised in appellant’s brief.
The motion for rehearing is therefore overruled.