Court Opinion

ID: 9832702
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:07:22.072221+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:12:31.302049
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On Motion of Appellees for a Rehearing.
It is insisted in the motion that this court erred when, reversing the judgment in appellees’ favor, it rendered judgment in appellants’ favor.
The contention should be sustained if the question made by the evidence as to whether Mrs. Haekel accepted the deed to her was one of fact; for in that event this court did not have a right in the face of the finding of the jury that she did not accept the deed to here render judgment in her favor. Sprinkles v. Kerbow (Tex. Com. App.) 279 S. W. 805. But if the question so made was one of law it ought not to have been submitted to the jury, and their determination of it was without legal effect.
In the presentation of the appeal the parties were not in disagreement, but were urging, in effect, that the question was one purely of law for the court’s determination. It was in keeping with that view of the matter that this court ignored the finding. of the jury and rendered the judgment in favor of appellants. We are not convinced that the course pursued was erroneous, and therefore overrule the motion.
SELLERS, J., not sitting.