Court Opinion

ID: 9832458
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:55:48.309826+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:46.994850
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On Motion for Rehearing.
[6] Appellee very earnestly insists that we erroneously disposed of this case on the theory that the letter of Paul G. Taylor did not amount to a warranty, when no such theory was presented in the plaintiff’s pleading or in the charge upon which the case was submitted, the contention being that, as alleged and as submitted, the case is one of fraud only. While it is true, strictly speaking, that as made by the pleadings and as submitted the case seems to be one of fraud, yet the letter of appellant was declared upon, and there was a contention in appellant’s brief that the letter was relied upon, as a warranty, and this contention was not specifically denied. We therefore discussed the question as a possible basis for an af-firmance of the judgment. But if we were in error, as appellee now urges, in determining that the letter did not constitute a warranty, the error is harmless, inasmuch as we also held that the judgment could not be supported on the issue of fraud.
[7] Appellee also insists that we erred in the conclusion that there was no evidence of fraud, and in here rendering the judgment, for the reason that appellant on the trial below made no objection to the court’s charge submitting the issue of fraud, and, on the contrary, requested a special charge on the subject, thus, as is contended, waiving any right on appeal to question the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict of the jury in appellee’s favor on that issue. On original hearing appellee made no such objection to a consideration of the assignments of error in this case, at least one of which directly attacked the judgment for want of sufficient evidence to sustain it on the issue of fraud, and it is now too late to; do so. See opinion on rehearing in Southern Gas & Gasoline Engine Co. v. Adams & Peters, 169 S. W. 1149.
We think the motion for rehearing must be overruled.