Court Opinion

ID: 9828520
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:27:33.304055+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:50.026414
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On Motion for Rehearing.
As shown in our former opinion, under authority of Paine v. Eckhardt, Tex.Civ.App., 203 S.W. 459, the failure of a physician to allege, in an action to recover for medical services, that he had a license to practice medicine was a fatal defect in his pleading. Of course, in such case, the plaintiff was permitted to amend his petition so as to state a cause of action sufficient against a general demurrer, and then to prove such petition as amended. Appellant does not deny in her motion for rehearing that by force of Rule 90, abolishing general demurrers, her failure to point out the defect in appellee’s pleading constituted a waiver of such defect. She insists, however, that a waiver by her of such defect in pleading was no waiver of any defect or failure in appellee’s proof, and that it was necessary for him to prove that he had a license to "practice medicine to support a recovery for medical services.
We overrule appellant’s motion for rehearing. To sustain such contention would be to hold that a demurrer to evidence was good where the evidence fully sustained the allegations of the petition, and there was no exception to the petition as defective. To sustain appellant’s contention would be, by indirection, to .sustain a general demurrer to appellee’s petition. For if we sustained a demurrer to appellee’s evidence, we would be required to remand the cause for a new trial to enable appellee to amend his petition to allege that he has a license, and prove his petition as amended.
Motion for rehearing overruled.