Court Opinion

ID: 9681069
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:43:30.186483+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:32.056242
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing or to Transfer
PER CURIAM.
Appellants feel they .are outraged because in our statement of facts, we neglected to mention that, according to Tur-nage, when he was picking up the boys on the morning of the second day, he drove past the home of deceased Larry Jones, that as he did so “the other boys was beginning to holler, ‘Wait, we got to get Larry,’ so I backed up and Larry got out from his truck and got on the truck and we went on to the field.” It is argued from this that there was a fair inference (a) that Larry owned a truck, (b) that he was preparing to drive himself to the hayfield, and (c) that insofar as this youth was concerned, this belies our conclusion that there was an implied understanding that he was to be transported to and from the work.
The verdict holder is entitled to the benefit of all reasonable inferences which support his verdict, and the appellate court, if its opinion undertakes to recite the circumstances which govern its decision, should set forth all those facts which support such verdict. Due, no doubt, to our lack of perspicaciousness and peripheral comprehension, we did not understand that appellants were contending that there was a separate or different arrangement, or lack of arrangement, in respect to Larry Jones than that in respect to the crew or group of boys; but since we now understand that to be the contention, we set forth' in full (above) the only testimony we find which bears upon it in order that appellants may not feel that material evidence *349and a material contention have been overlooked or ignored.
Assuming that all the inferences above set forth can be indulged, including the suggested inference of some separate arrangement, or lack of arrangement or understanding, we think it makes no difference in the ultimate outcome; for if there was a separate “lack of arrangement” it was abandoned by both parties when Turnage did proffer the transportation to work along with the rest of the crew, and the youth accepted it. The circumstances necessarily implied an understanding, or implied agreement, that Jones was to receive transportation back home.
The motion for rehearing or in the alternative to transfer is overruled.