Court Opinion

ID: 9834026
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:14:22.324023+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:10.994715
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
 The petition in this case declared upon express contracts executed by officers of the municipal corporation. The contracts were alleged and proved to be in writing-, neither of them shown to have been executed by the governing body of the municipality, one having been executed by the fire chief and the other by the mayor. There being no express contract binding upon the city because not executed by its authority, it could only be held liable on an implied contract arising from the fact that it had accepted and used the hose sold to its unauthorized officers.' The proof showed that the hose had been ordered by the fire chief and mayor and had been for years used by the city, no protest having ever been uttered against the purchase of the hose. The hose should have been paid for by the city, and the cause should not have been allowed to be sued upon in the courts of the county. But in spite of these facts this court is bound to uphold the rule provided for in the trial of all cases, and that is the allegations and proof must correspond. The petition having declared upon an express contract, appellee could not recover upon an implied contract, because the proof necessary to establish the latter is altogether different from that required to establish the former. .It follows that the question of implied contract can have no force or effect in the decision of this case, and, that being the condition of affairs, appellee has failed to establish a cause of action. There being no basis for a recovery on an implied contract, it follows that there could be no basis for holding that the officers had the implied authority to waive limitations. The evidence established limitations in both instances.
Because there were no allegations that were supported by facts to sustain a judgment in favor of appellee, the motion for rehearing is granted, the judgment of the lower court is reversed, and judgment here rendered that appellee take nothing by its action.