Court Opinion

ID: 9828667
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:36:39.802786+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:13.957716
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellants complain that that portion of the opinion wherein we state that some of the witnesses who testified in their behalf were in an attitude before the jury of being considered as under the influence of bias because of their relationship to appellants, and that the attitude of others was one of interest in the suit, is not supported by the record. The reason for this contention is that the record shows that several witnesses were not related to appellants and were not interested in the suit. This is true. We did not mean to say in the original opinion, and in it we do not say, under a fair reading, that all the witnesses who testified in behalf of appellants were either under the influence of bias or were interested in the suit. However, in view of the apparent misunderstanding on the part of appellants, we here state what we think ought to be apparent from our original opinion; that is, some of the numerous witnesses who testified for appellants upon the trial were related to appellants, and others had an interest in the suit. Still others were not relatives of any party to the suit and had no interest in it.