Court Opinion

ID: 9944820
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-26 18:40:08.652124+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:23:22.665245
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION
After decision of this case, Carter v. Berry, 136 So.2d 871, appellees filed a suggestion of error. The Court requested responses thereto and rebuttal brief by appellee. After thorough consideration by the Court en banc, the suggestion of error was overruled. Appellees have now filed a "motion for authority to file second suggestion of error."
(Hn 22) Supreme Court Rule 14 (3) states: "After a suggestion of error has been sustained, or overruled, by the Court, no further suggestion of error shall be filed by any party." The Court has consistently applied this rule over the years, and has refused to accept for filing a second suggestion of error, after a case has been thoroughly considered on the merits and on a first suggestion of error. Amite County v. Mills, 138 Miss. 222, 238, 102 So. 737 (1925); Ball v. State, 203 Miss. 521, 527,36 So.2d 159 (1948); Continental Southern Lines v. Klaas, 217 Miss. 795, 853, 65 So.2d 575 (1953); Snowden v. Webb, 217 Miss. 664, 683, 64 So.2d 745 (1953). The only exception to this rule was applied where a question of jurisdiction under unusual circumstances was *Page 379 
involved. The Home Insurance Company v. Watts, 93 So.2d 848 Miss. 1957).
Appellees' motion for authority to file a second suggestion of error states that under Rule 33 the Court may dispense with any of the rules to advance justice or to avoid surprise; that some of the authorities in the court's opinion on suggestion of error were not advanced or relied upon by either side in their briefs; and that appellees have an adequate answer to them.
This case has been thoroughly and fully considered. There were elaborate briefs by both sides on the original submission to a quorum of the judges. On suggestion of error reply briefs were requested and filed, and the matter was considered en banc. We see no sound basis for setting aside a long established rule and reconsidering additional briefs. We decline to do so. Hence the motion for authority to file a second suggestion of error is overruled.
Motion for authority to file second suggestion of error overruled.
All Justices concur.