Court Opinion

ID: 9773876
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 18:01:57.190703+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:58.677956
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
The appellees in their motion for rehearing view our original decision as reversing and remanding the trial court’s judgment insofar as it reaffirmed the interlocutory summary judgment and affirming that portion of the judgment “that title to such premises be quieted in the said Sam Bailey and Ted Saba, their successors and assigns * * * »
Appellees’ cross-action against the appellant was primarily a suit for damages, even though they did allege ownership of and title to the land here in question as a basis for their allegations for damages. In the prayer of the said pleading, appellees prayed for judgment quieting title to the tracts of land here involved in addition to their prayer for damages. The only issues submitted to the jury on appellees’ cross-action was in connection with their allegations of damages against the appellant by virtue of two lawsuits and lis pendens notices previously filed by him (appellant) against the appellees involving the title to the same tracts of land here involved which lawsuits on appellant’s motion were dismissed. The court submitted no issue to the jury on the trial of the cross-action upon which, from the answers thereto, the court could have made an adjudication of title.
The trial court in the preceding paragraph, in its judgment, to the one quieting title in the appellees, clearly states that the remaining portion of the judgment was based upon the summary judgment as well as the verdict of the jury on appellees’ cross-action.
As this court views the final judgment of the trial court, the portion of the judgment adjudicating and quieting title in the appellees, was based upon the interlocutory summary judgment. When the court granted appellees’ motion for summary judgment, title was quieted in appellees. There was nothing left to be determined or adjudicated in the trial court but the question of damages raised by appellees’ cross-action. The appellant on the cross-action hearing was precluded from further pursuing his claim of title as the court by its interlocutory summary judgment had already determined that issue adversely to him. It was the intention of this court, by its original opinion herein, to affirm only that portion of the trial court’s final judgment that denied to appellees any recovery on their cross-action for damages against appellant and reverse and remand the remaining portion of the judgment for another trial.
To clarify the disposition we made of this case in our original opinion, we now declare that the portion of the trial court’s final judgment denying to appellees any recovery on their cross-action for damages against *211appellant is affirmed and that the remaining portion of the judgment is reversed and remanded for another trial.
Appellees’ motion for rehearing is respectfully overruled.
McKAY, J., not participating.