Court Opinion

ID: 9829591
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:27:41.804767+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:03.299328
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
This was a suit by appellee, A. J. Manuel, for himself, and as next friend for his minor daughter, Marlene Manuel, against appellant for damages. The jury found for the minor in two items of $500 each. It also found in favor of appellee, A. J. Manuel, for a sum, which after a remittitur was filed, was $100. The judgment was rendered for A. J. Manuel for the entire amount of $1,100. The judgment should have been in favor of Marlene Manuel, the minor, by her next friend, A. J. Manuel, for $1,000 for the use and benefit of said minor, Marlene Manuel, and that the money, when collected, is to remain in court until the appointment and qualification of a regular guardian of the estate of said minor, authorized to receive said money; and judgment in favor of A. J. Manuel for the $100. The matter is called to our attention by appellant in its motion for rehearing. The judgment is hereby reformed so as to award, in consonance with the jury’s finding, $1,000 to the minor, Marlene Manuel, by her next friend, A. J. Manuel, for the use and benefit of said minor, and that the money, when collected, shall remain in the registry of the court until the appointment and qualification of a regular guardian of the estate of said minor, authorized to receive said money; and, further judgment in favor of A. J. Manuel for $100, and as reformed is affirmed. Texas Cent. Ry. v. Stewart, 1 Tex.Civ.App. 642, 20 S.W. 962, writ refused; Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. v. Styron, 66 Tex. 421, 424, 1 S.W. 161; Wilson v. Fisher, Tex.Civ.App., 105 S.W.2d 304, writ refused.
The motion for rehearing in all other respects is overruled.