Court Opinion

ID: 9829137
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:01:21.316703+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:57.676221
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Both parties have filed motions for rehearing in this case. The defendant (Green) insists that the disposition made by us of his points 11 and 12 should be revised by us. We said in the opinion, substantially, that both sets of requested issues were effectively covered in the court’s main charge. From a careful review of the record we think we did not assign the proper reason for overruling the points. Requested issues “A”, “B” and “C” were inquiries of whether Yvonne Ligón failed to warn the driver of defendant’s car that she was going to attempt to cross the street at the place of the accident, and whether same was negligence and proximate cause. Error was assigned by point 11 because the requested issues were not submitted.
Point 12 complains because the court refused to submit requested issues “E,” “F” and “G.” These issues would have inquired whether Yvonne Ligón ran into the street at the time of the accident, and was same negligence and proximate cause. Both acts of failure to warn the driver and the child’s running into the street were pleaded by defendant as acts *750of contributory negligence and proximate causes. We have again searched the statement of facts and we find not a word of testimony on either point raised. No witness is shown to have seen the child after she was seen standing on the curb and before she attempted to cross the street. The record is entirely silent as to whether or not she signaled the driver as he approached, and whether she nm into the street (as distinguished from walking into the street) as argued in the motion. We are cited to Rules 277 and 279. Those rules specifically provide that the court shall submit the material and controlling issues on all matters pleaded and upon which evidence is offered. There being no evidence offered to support either allegation, the court properly declined to submit the requested issues, although plead.
If upon another trial there should be evidence introduced on either or both of the matters raised by the requested issues', ■of course it would be proper for the court to submit one or both in accordance with the cited rules.
Substituting what is here said for what was said in the original opinion on the points involved, which explanations in no way change the final conclusions reached by us, we overrule both motions for rehearing.