Court Opinion

ID: 3466893
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 20:32:35.168794+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:58.596945
License: Public Domain

Counsel for Standard Surety  Casualty Company of New York — called in warranty by R.F. Mestayer Lumber Company, Inc. — who are also counsel for the latter company, direct our attention to the fact that, when judgment was rendered in the district court in favor of the Mestayer Lumber Company dismissing the suit of plaintiff, and plaintiff appealed from that judgment, the Mestayer Lumber Company did not appeal from that part of the judgment which dismissed its call in warranty.
In application for rehearing they, therefore, complain of the fact that, after rendering decree in favor of plaintiff and against Mestayer Lumber Company, we rendered a decree in favor of the Mestayer Lumber Company and against Standard Surety 
Casualty Company as warrantor.
Since there was no appeal as against the warrantor, the decree should not have been rendered against that company. We were misled by the fact that counsel who represented the Lumber Company also represented the insurer of the Lumber Company and appeared on the brief and argued the case on behalf of both of the said parties.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the decree heretofore rendered by us be and it is amended insofar as it runs against Standard Surety  Casualty Company of New York in warranty.
The application for rehearing is refused.
Rehearing refused.