Court Opinion

ID: 9833638
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:54:55.151427+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:05.541165
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
It is insisted that we -were in error in finding that E. E. King and the Diffeys “entered into a written agreement” for the exchange of properties in Henrietta on May 27, 1913; the insistence being that neither finding nor evidence shows that the agreement then and there made was signed by the parties. If it be assumed that it is to be implied from what we said in our original opinion that the Henrietta agreement was actually signed by the respective parties, then to that extent we were in error. The inaccuracy, however, if any, is wholly immaterial as we view it, for the reason that both the evidence and findings sufficiently show that the agreement mentioned was made in the terms set forth in an instrument then and there reduced to writing. So that the fact that it was not signed cannot materially affect our original conclusion. The essential inquiry in this respect was, Did the parties actually enter into an agreement at Henrietta, whether written or oral, with definite terms, and upon the faith of which Laura Y. Diffey executed her deed and authorized its delivery? In all these respects the record leaves no room for doubt, and the findings as a whole abundantly show that the deed was finally delivered by the husband, J. B. Diffey, upon terms materially different from those assented to by the wife.
In all other respects we think what was said in our original opinion sufficiently disposes of the questions reargued in the motion, and, believing that the findings of the jury, when considered as a whole, require the conclusions originally announced, the motion for rehearing is overruled.