Court Opinion

ID: 9854764
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:13:44.512699+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:23:21.933841
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In his motion for rehearing, the appellant urges that "[t]his decision, if allowed to stand, will allow one’s own counsel intentionally to misrepresent a document and escape liability...” However, the counts of the appellant’s complaint do not allege an intentional or fraudulent misrepresentation and the record is bare of any evidence or inference thereof. The appellant may neither extend the facts of his case nor enlarge upon his cause of action by means of a petition for rehearing.
In every tort action, causation must be established. Where, as here, there is an intervening factor which breaks that chain of causation leading from defendant to plaintiff, there can be no recovery. In this case the appellant’s ability to read and comprehend, together with his failure to do so, constitute that intervening cause.

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Motion for rehearing denied.