Court Opinion

ID: 9831021
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:42:41.644696+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:29.453557
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellant has filed this motion for rehearing, and to correct certain findings of fact. It is urged that there- was no evidence to support our finding that the appellee was over 6 feet tall, or that furniture cars are from 1 to 2% feet higher than ordinary box cars. These statements in the original opinion were based upon statements made in the brief of the appellee. They were accepted as correct, in view of the fact that they were not contested in the oral argument made by counsel for appellant in the original presentation of this case. At the instance of the appellant we now modify our finding in the two respects mentioned. There was no testimony showing how tall the appellee was. The testimony quoted by the appellant in its motion shows that box cars are from 12 to 14 feet high, and that furniture cars range from 1% to 2 feet higher than ordinary box cars. This modification in the findings of fact is not regarded as sufficient to change our conclusions of law heretofore announced. Whatever may have been the height of furniture cars, or the height of the appellee, the evidence is conclusive that 'the wire was sufficiently low to come in contact with and injure him in the manner described in his petition. There is no evidence that this condition of the wire was brought about by any occurrence over which the appellant had no control.
The motion to correct findings of fact is granted, but the motion for rehearing is overruled.