Court Opinion

ID: 9830977
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:40:29.440431+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:28.934919
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
Appellant complains of the action of this court in refusing to consider its third, fourth, and fifth assignments of error over objections made that the bills of exception taken to the action of the court in refusing to submit the charges do not show that the special charges were prepared and presented to the court and submitted to opposing counsel for examination and objection within a reasonable time after the charge is given to the parties or their attorneys for examination, and says :
“We do not believe that any court has gone as far in refusing to consider assignments as was done in this case.”
Counsel, in preparing the motion, has evidently overlooked article 1973, Revised Statutes, as amended in 1913, referred to in the opinion, the latter part of which reads as follows :
“Such instructions [prepared by counsel after receiving the court’s general charge], shall be prepared and presented to the court and submitted to opposing counsel for examination and objection within a reasonable time after the charge is given to the parties or their attorneys for examination.”
The Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, after commenting on this provision of the law, in Floegge v. Meyer et al., 172 S. W. 194, said:
“The bill, we think, is fatally defective in failing to show that the special charge was requested before the charge of the court was read to the jury, and is further defective in failing to show that such special charge was submitted to opposing counsel for their consideration, as abovb indicated, for which reason this assignment cannot be considered by us.”
The Fourth Court of Civil Appeals, in International & G. N. Ry. Co. v. Jones, 175 S. W. 488, said:
“There is nothing in the bill of exceptions indicating that the issues were ever submitted to counsel for appellees, and the assignment could not be considered.”
The motion is overruled.