Court Opinion

ID: 9680906
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:40:51.140168+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:31.211494
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
JOHNSON, Justice.
On motion for rehearing Signal urges that the court clarify what issues or matters may be relitigated on remand of the implied warranty cause of action. Signal asserts that several issues constituted findings under the implied warranty cause of action, as well as under the causes of action in negligence and strict liability which were affirmed; i. e., the damages issue and issues on Signal’s negligence. Signal points out that judicial estoppel might be asserted as a defense should it attempt to relitigate these issues. This court has held that the implied warranty cause of action between Signal, Procon, and Alcorn is remanded for a full trial on the merits. By so holding, this court intended that all evidence and issues as to liability, causation, defenses, and damages in the implied warranty cause of action were to be presented and relitigated in the trial court.
Should the issue of Signal’s contributory negligence be raised as a defensive matter, the defendant shall carry the burden of requesting submission of a special issue by which it might be determined the degree to which each party contributed to the damages.
With such clarification, all motions for rehearing are overruled.