Court Opinion

ID: 9777299
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 20:06:51.77267+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:52.128559
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
Johnnie Wesley Guin and Billy Wayne Peden urge by their motion for rehearing that two jury findings favorable to Robert Fitch and Eagle Trucking were contrary to the great weight of the evidence or were not supported by sufficient evidence. They have preserved points that complained of the jury’s negative answer to special issue 1(a), which issue asked if Eagle Trucking was negligent in blocking the lane of the highway, and also the jury’s answer of “None” to the special issue which asked about Guin’s damages. A decision concerning those matters is beyond this court’s jurisdiction.
We accordingly grant Guin’s and Peden’s motion for rehearing. We set aside our former judgment affirming that part of the judgment of the trial court that Fitch and Eagle Trucking recover against Guin and Peden. We do not, however, set aside that part of our former judgment affirming the judgments below that Texas Bitulithic and G & G are not liable. We sever and render judgment affirming the court of civil appeals judgment that Guin and Peden take nothing against United Drilling Company, Texas Bitulithic Company, and G & G.
The court of civil appeals reversed the judgment of the trial court that Fitch and Eagle Trucking Company recover judgment, and remanded that part of the cause to the trial court. This court reverses that judgment. Since the complaints about the sufficiency of the evidence and the great weight of the evidence relate to only two jury findings, we remand this part of the cause to the court of civil appeals only for *509the exercise of its fact-finding jurisdiction over those two jury findings. Rule 503, Tex.R.Civ.Pro. Shriro Corp. v. Ward, 570 S.W.2d 395 (Tex.1978); Dyess v. Connecticut General Life Ins. Co., 463 S.W.2d 724, 729 (Tex. 1971); Stanfield v. O’Boyle, 462 S.W.2d 270 (Tex.1971).