Court Opinion

ID: 9827658
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 17:44:39.602078+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:34.198988
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On Motion for Rehearing.
In our original opinion we reversed so much of the judgment of the trial court as was in favor of E. W. I-Ioeeker against O. M. Wooster for damages, and rendered judgment for Wooster. We also therein held that, as there was no evidence to show that either' the J. B. Arpin Dredging Company, J. B. Arpin, or E. P. Arpin authorized the filing of the answer purporting to be the answer of the J. B. Arpin Dredging Company filed by Gill, Jones &. Stone on the 10th day of September, 1912, and as the evidence shows neither of the parties were otherwise served with citation, no recovery could be had against either of them for the damages sued for, and as to these parties we reversed the judgment and remanded the cause for another trial, upon the question of their liability for the alleged damages.
Since filing the original opinion counsel who represented the J. B. Arpin Dredging Company, and who presented oral argument in its behalf before this court, has filed a paper in this court in this case which he has indorsed, “’Suggestion of Amicus Curiae,” and in which it is suggested to this court that the answer filed by Gill, Jones & Stone was the answer of J. B. Arpin and E. P. Arpin, and that thereby they were before the trial court, and that judgment had been rendered in their favor by the trial court, to the entry of which no exception had been taken, nor appeal perfected, and that such judgment should be affirmed by this court.
Since the paper above mentioned has been filed appellee, I-Ioecker, has filed his motion for rehearing, and, among other things, contends that, since counsel who represented the J. B. Arpin Dredging Company has in writing admitted that J. B. and E. P. Arpin, who are shown to have been members of the firm of J. B. Arpin Dredging Company, authorized the filing of the answer filed by Gill, Jones & Stone, the said J. B. and E. P. Ar-pin, as well as the dredging company, were before the trial court, and that such admission on the part of counsel for said dredging company supplies and concedes all that was required to satisfy this court that said company and the members thereof were before the trial court, and that they are before this court by appeal.
We think this contention should be sustained in so far as it relates to the J. B. Ar-pin Dredging Company, but not as to the individual parties, as they were not brought before this court by the appeal. The appeal in this case was by C. M. Wooster and the J. B. Arpin Dredging Company only. Appellee did not appeal from the judgment rendered by the trial court in favor of J. B. and E. P. Arpin, and therefore that part of the judgment is not before us for review. But since it is admitted that J. B. Arpin Dredging Company was before the trial court, by answer authorized by the members of the firm, we think appellee’s motion for rehearing should be in part granted, and that so much of the judgment of this court as reversed the judgment of the trial court in favor of E. W. I-Ioecker against the J. B. Arpin Dredging Company should be set aside, and that the judgment of the trial court against the J. B. Arpin Dredging Company should be affirmed, and it is so ordered. We also set aside so much of our former judgment as reversed the judgment of the trial court in favor of J. B. and E. P. Arpin. As that part of the judgment of the trial court was not appealed from, it will remain undisturbed.