Court Opinion

ID: 9740475
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:36:18.175869+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:18.435896
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HENDERSON, Justice
(concurring specially).
On the morning of trial, i.e., March 9, 1982, appellee filed a trial brief and orally *109moved for summary judgment. Appellant consented to such a hearing without any prior notice. A bench decision was then granted for summary judgment in favor of appellee, but terms were assessed against appellee. Some seventeen days passed and appellee served appellant with a proposed Order Granting Summary Judgment and Summary Judgment. Written objections were then filed and the trial court thereupon entered Summary Judgment on April 14, 1982. I find this procedure rather unusual.
No allegation was made in appellant’s complaint that he had been excluded from the property in. question or denied its peaceable enjoyment. This action was brought for damages and without such allegation no damages could flow. See 4 Thompson on Real Property, Cotenants’ Liability for Use and Occupation of Premises, § 1805, at 167 (1961). The pleading was fatal.
Thus, from the pleadings, and as a matter of law, appellee was entitled to summary judgment.