Court Opinion

ID: 9833950
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:10:46.165101+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:09.728767
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
'Defendant in error, in its motion for rehearing, urges that the eleventh assignment should not have been sustained because there is no allegation of negligence on the part of any of Glover’s coworkers other than the foreman, Phillips. The language of the petition is not as clear and satisfactory as it should be in respect to this matter, but is regarded as sufficient to raise the issue. This and the other contentions assumed in the motion for rehearing being regarded as without merit, the motion is overruled.
The plaintiff in error, in a reply filed to the motion for rehearing, states that after briefing the case and after its submission, he noticed he had failed to call this court’s attention to the fact that the provisions of the Employers’ Liability Act, article 6648, Rev. Stat. of 1911, is .applicable, rather than article 6640, since the accident to plaintiff occurred on April 21, 1910.. As stated in the .opinion, we purposely pretermitted any. discussion of liability for the negligence-of fellow servants upon a phase of the case readily apparent but not raised, for the reason that plaintiff in error’s assignment and supporting propositions were predicated solely upon the applicability of article 6640, and under the authorities cited in the opinion, we were confined in our consideration of the assignment to that position. As was intimated in the opinion, the applicability of article 6648, rather than article 6640, was readily apparent, but it is not within the province of this court to reverse cases for errors not assigned and not presented, unless they be fundamental in their nature, or of such character otherwise that same should be passed upon without assignments.
We, therefore, expressly decline to sustain the assignment by reason of the provisions of article 6648, and base the reversal upon the ground assumed originally that, disregarding said article, the defendant in error nevertheless is liable under the provisions of article 6640.