Court Opinion

ID: 9772457
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:18:35.582216+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:44.683849
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On Petition for Rehearing.
In this cause, counsel for Appellee, who was complainant in the lower court, has filed an earnest petition to rehear. The opinion of the court, reversing this cause, was filed September 3, 1963, and the petition to rehear was filed September 20, 1963. Under the provisions of Rule 22 of the Rules of this court, said petition should have been filed within 10 days after September 3, 1963. Even if it had been filed within the time allowed by our rules, however, it would have to be denied.
In the main, said petition to rehear presents merely a reargument of the cause as same was presented at the hearing and in counsel’s brief. With one exception, every point presented in the petition to rehear was presented at the hearing of the cause and in complainant’s brief. After careful consideration, every point presented was fully considered by this court and was disposed of adversely to complainant in the opinion filed September 3, 1963. We find no reason for changing our opinion, and we adhere to same.
The one new point presented by the petition to rehear is a contention that complainant should have been entitled to recover from defendant support money covering, at least, the period of time between the date of *513separation of tlie parties and tlie date on which the Texas divorce decree in favor of defendant was granted. This contention is, also, without merit. No proof on this limited question was offered in the lower court, and no contention was made in this court for recovery of such limited amount until the filing of the petition to rehear. The contention seems to he predicated upon the theory that the ante nuptial contract obligated defendant at least to this extent; and, on the further theory that, since the Texas court was authorized, under the Texas statutes, to award support money or alimony pendente lite during the time the divorce suit was pending, the Tennessee courts can do now what the Texas court could have done then. In our opinion, the time and the place for complainant to have made her claim for support money, covering the time between the separation of the parties and the awarding of the divorce in favor of defendant, was in the Texas court in which the divorce suit was filed and tried. She saw fit to ignore that divorce suit, even though she had notice of same. The Tennessee courts cannot do for her now what the Texas court might have done while that suit was pending.
The petition to rehear is denied.
Avery, (P.J.,W.S.), Carney, J., concur.