Court Opinion

ID: 9834335
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:29:38.820513+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:13.869300
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In the disposition made of this case upon original hearing we overlooked appellants’ claim for rents asserted in their pleadings. As shown in the opinion heretofore filed, the jury found that the average cash rental value of the land in controversy for the five years beginning with the year 1920 and ending with the year 1924 was $2 per acre per annum.. The evidence showed without controversy that there was an aggregate of 260 acres of land in the two tracts in controversy, and appellants have been awarded a recovery of an undivided three-fifths of their mother’s one-half interest in those two tracts, which would be equal to 78 acres. An aggregate of $10 per acre rental on the 78 acres is equal' to $780, for which William Gordon Miller is indebted to appellants for rents less three-fifths of one-half, or three-tenths, of the taxes paid by him on the land during those years, and the record shows without controversy that the total taxes paid by him during those years on the 260 acres was $442.53, three-tenths of which sum is $132.75. That amount deducted from $780 leaves a balance of $647.-25, for which judgment is here rendered in favor of appellants against appellee, i in addition to the judgment heretofore rendered by this court in appellants’ favor for an undivided three-fifths of one-half of the 260 acres of land described in plaintiffs’ petition.