Court Opinion

ID: 9793057
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:41:33.459313+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:03:11.537792
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing. COMPTON, Justice.  Appellee has filed a motion for rehearing in this case which must be denied because the grounds set forth are not well taken. However, he has called our attention to the fact that in our former opinion we ordered a reversal of the judgment with direction to the trial court to “proceed in a manner not inconsistent herewith.” Appellee contends that the quoted directive affords him an opportunity of supplying further corroborative evidence on a retrial of the cause. In this contention he is mistaken; we did not intend to order a new trial. The case was fully tried on the merits and whether § 20-2-5, 1953 Comp, was applicable, was the decisive question for determination by the trial court. Under such circumstance the case should not be reopened for further proof. National Rubber Supply Co. v. Oleson & Exter, 20 N.M. 624, 151 P. 694; State ex rel. Bujac v. District Court, 28 N.M. 28, 205 P. 716. However, the matter is ripe for an accounting between the parties. Accordingly, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded with a direction to the trial court to set it aside and to enter one in favor of defendants, by reason whereof an accounting between the parties should follow, based upon our holding that all property, both real and personal, on hand and undivided at time of the divorce, was community property. It Is So Ordered. LUJAN, C. J., and SADLER and SHILLINGLAW, JJ., concur. McGHEE, J., dissenting.