Court Opinion

ID: 9831890
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:27:12.187126+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:38.468789
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On Rehearing.
At a former day of this term the judgment of the trial court in this case was reversed, and it was ordered that the cause be remanded for a new trial. The ground upon which the court reversed the judgment of the trial court was the insufficiency of the evidence to support the finding and judgment of the trial court, to the effect, substantially, that the appellant was liable for the damages claimed by appellee, for the reason that appellant refused to permit appellee to inspect the shipment of hay in question, as appellant was bound to do under the bill of lading on which the shipment moved. The reasons in full for this court’s judgment are shown in the original opinion, and need not be repeated here. In due time after the original opinion was filed, both the appellee and appellant have filed motions for a rehearing; the ap-pellee praying that our former opinion be set aside, and that judgment be rendered affirming the judgment of the trial court, and the appellant praying that a rehearing be granted, and that this court reverse and render the judgment of the trial court.
The appellee, in his motion for rehearing, has raised no new question, and this court has seen no reason why it should recede from its original holding in this case, being still of the opinion that the evidence clearly showed that the appellee was permitted to make such inspection of the shipment of hay in question as was contemplated and provided in the bill of lading on which the shipment moved, and therefore appellee’s motion for rehearing must be overruled.
[3] We notice in appellee’s motion for rehearing the express statement that appellee cannot produce any more evidence to sustain his claim of liability against the appellant in this case than was produced on the trial below, and therefore there could be no reason for remanding the cause for a new trial, but in such event it becomes the duty of this court to reverse and render the judgment of the trial court.
It is therefore ordered that appellant’s motion for rehearing he granted, and the judgment heretofore rendered by this court, reversing and remanding the cause, is here now set aside, and it is now ordered that the-judgment of the trial court be reversed and. here rendered in favor of appellant.