Court Opinion

ID: 9779351
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:47:53.211417+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:25.631588
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ON MOTIONS FOR REHEARING
Both the Brooks and Blue Ridge Insurance Company have filed respective motions for rehearing. A consideration of the motions does not persuade us to change our original judgment. Neither are we persuaded to write further upon the reurged contentions we previously addressed other than in correction of one matter mentioned in our original opinion.
In the eleventh paragraph of our opinion, we stated that no appeal was taken from our former judgment by which we reversed the trial court’s prior summary judgment and remanded the cause. By its motion, Blue Ridge accurately reports that each of the parties filed in the Supreme Court a separate application for writ of error, both of which were “refused, no reversible error,” 25 Tex.Sup.Ct.J. 204 (Mar. 6, 1982), and that, thereafter, Blue Ridge’s motion for rehearing of its application was overruled. 25 Tex.Sup.Ct.J. 244 (Apr. 3, 1982). In the interest of accuracy, we make this correction to our original opinion; however, in this connection, we cannot subscribe to Blue Ridge’s argument that our misunderstanding of the writ history undermines our reasoning for the “law of the case” holding.
The misstated writ history does not affect the reality that the first appeal from the summary judgment was determined solely by a decision on the question of law which remained material to, but was not honored upon, the submission of a controlling issue in the retrial giving rise to this appeal. It was on that basis that we held, and now adhere to the holding, that our former decision established the law to govern the retrial of the cause. It followed, and still follows, that the trial court’s refusal to follow that law constituted reversible error.
The motions for rehearing are overruled.