Court Opinion

ID: 9833680
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:56:35.93194+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:05.830949
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*80On Rehearing.
We have concluded that appellees’ motion for rehearing should be overruled. In a separate motion we are requested, upon such contingency, to make additional findings and conclusions. The motion really seems to be a request that we pass upon, three cross-assignments of error which were presented in appellees’ brief, and which by oversight or impression that they were rendered immaterial by reason of the disposition Of the case, we failed to discuss in the opinion.
The cross-assignments of error complain of the exclusion of three letters dated, respectively, September 17, 1935, November 4, 1919, and November 22, 1919, written by J. E. Adison, deceased, to appellee Mrs. L. T. McKibban. The first letter informed the addressee that the writer had been sick about fourteen months, had had an operation from which he had never recovered, and by reason of which • he never expected to be as' strong again as before; stated he had $9,500 left, his operation had cost him $1,600, and asking for news. The second letter expressed the desire of the writer to hear from his niece for the reason that 'he realized the fact that he was getting a little old, hhd some property he would like to will to her at his death. The third letter contained a short list of personal and real property and to advise the Writer’s niece of the receipt of her letter, of his desire to keep in touch with her, and stating that he had filed a will with his other papers, making her his executrix, and advising her to keep the letter and the list, etc.
The first letter was excluded upon objection that it was “immaterial, threw no light on the case and had no bearing on the case whatever.” The second was excluded upon the objection that it was “immaterial, threw no light on the case, and had no bearing on the case whatever, and was too remote.” The objection to the third letter was on the same ground as the objections to the second letter. • All the letters were intended to show a long-continued, fixed intention of the deceased to devise his property to appellee.
In our opinion these letters were admissible in evidence as against the objections made", and the court erred in excluding them. These cross-assignments of error were expressly urged;- not for the purpose of reversing the judgment, but-for the purpose, as stated, of investing the appellate court with full power to grant appellee all the relief to which she would be entitled on appeal to the end that the judgment of - the district court may be affirmed.
We have, therefore, expressed the above conclusions in the light of another trial.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.