Court Opinion

ID: 9828907
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:50:10.014947+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:54.265966
License: Public Domain

On Appellees’ Motion for a Rehearing.
" In the motion attention is called to the fact that 'the witness J. W. Braden, on his redirect examination, stated that “none of the-three Kirkland boys were married.” The fact that we overlooked this testimony led to -the • erroneous statement in the opinion that there was nothing in the record on which to basé a finding that Jim Kirkland died - without- issue, and to the erroneous conclusion reached that the judgment was wrong, in so far as it was based on a finding to that effect. Giving effect to that finding, as we think we should, in view of the testimony overlooked as stated, it appears that the judgment rendered by the court below, so far as it was in favor of the appellees W. I-I. Margraves, J. F. Hembree, J. W. Braden, and Mrs. E. L. White, was not erroneous, and that, as to them, it should have been affirmed, as it was as to the appellees Walter Bone, Artie Bone, Ethel Bone, and Opal Bone.
In their motion appellees say they do not think it can be shown on another trial any more satisfactorily than it was on the trial had that Fannie Key died without issue, and they ask that, instead of reversing the judgment in so far as it was in favor of appel-lees J. M. Tindal, Mrs. Myrtle Edwards, Mrs. Clara Dillbeck, Hattie Inez Tindal, William Elmer Tindal, and R. E. Lee, it be so reformed as to adjudge in favor of those parties respectively the sum it appeared they were respectively entitled to recover if said Fannie Key was living, and as so reformed affirmed. We think this should be done.
Therefore the judgment heretofore rendered by us, in so far as it reverses the judgment of the court below in favor of said ap-pellees W. H. Margraves, J. F. Hembree, J. W. Braden, Mrs. E. L. White, J. M. Tindal, Mrs. Myrtle Edwards, Mrs. Clara Dillbeck, Hattie Inez Tindal, William Elmer Tindal and R. E. Lee, will be set aside, and, in lieu thereof, judgment will be rendered affirming the judgment of the court below in so far as it was in favor of said W. H. Margraves, J. F. Hembree, J. W. Braden, Mrs. E. L. White, Walter Bone, Artie Bone, Ethel Bone, and Opal Bone, and so reforming it, so far as it is in favor of the other parties mentioned, as to adjudge a recovery in favor of J. M. Tindal of the sum of $280.91, instead of $456.61; in favor of Mrs. Myrtle Edwards and Mrs. Clara Dillbeck, each respectively, the sum of $56.20, instead of $91.34; and in favor of Hattie Inez Tindal, William Elmer Tindal and R. E. Lee, each respectively, the sum of $140.55, instead of $175.69. As so reformed, the judgment of the court below will be affirmed, but without prejudice to the right of Fannie Key, if living, or, if she is dead, to the right of her heirs or assigns, to maintain a suit against appellants for the part she or they may be entitled to of the fund in the hands of appellant G. W. Wells.
The costs incurred on this appeal by said appellees W. H. Margraves, J. F. Hembree, J. W. Braden, Mrs. E. L. White, Walter Bone, Artie Bone, Ethel Bone, and Opal Bone shall be paid by appellants. The .other costs of the appeal shall be paid by J. M. Tindal, Mrs. Myrtle Edwards, Mrs. Clara Dillbeck, Hattie Inez Tindal, William Elmer Tindal, and R. E. Lee.