Court Opinion

ID: 9774312
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 18:15:06.267984+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:05.729623
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
The appellant has by our leave filed a second supplemental brief, pursuant to Rule 431, T.R.C.P., and the authorities cited in our opinion on rehearing in Minneapolis-Moline Co. v. Purser, Tex.Civ.App., 361 S.W.2d 239, 246, wr. ref. n. r. e. This brief contains a third point of error in which appellant says the trial court erred in rendering the summary judgment on pleadings alone and without support of any summary judgment evidence.
Appellant relies on Alexander v. Houston Oil Field Material Co., Tex.Civ.App., 386 S.W.2d 540, wherein it was held that in a suit on a promissory note a defendant’s answer containing a general denial raised a fact issue as to whether the plaintiff was the owner and holder of the note, and that a summary judgment for the plaintiff without any proof of that fact would be reversed. Since our opinion of March 5, 1965 was delivered the Supreme Court has refused the application for writ of error, “no reversible error,” in the Alexander case, and since that was the only point on which the case was reversed, the action of the Supreme Court must be construed as approving the holding of the Court of Civil Appeals on the point. We feel that the rule there announced should be applied here.
In this case there was no allegation in either the petition or the motion for summary judgment that appellee was the owner and holder of the note. At the hearing of the motion appellee did not offer the original note or any other evidence of his ownership thereof. This in our opinion brings the case within the rule of the Alexander case, and on the authority thereof we sustain the motion for rehearing. Accordingly, the judgment appealed from is reversed and remanded.
Reversed and remanded.