Court Opinion

ID: 9648986
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:39:59.691465+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:06.868271
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Opinion on Petition to Rehear
We deny Q. L. Walker’s petition to rehear.
“We are constrained to state, again, as has been said many times in variant language, that the office of a petition to rehear is to call the attention of the Court to matters overlooked, not those things which counsel supposes were improperly decided, after full consideration. Further, this Court has said, and says again, that a petition for rehearing should never be used for the purpose of rearguing the case on points already considered and determined, unless some new and decisive authority has been discovered which was overlooked by this Court. Rule 32 of this Court governs the subject of rehearing and says, “Á rehearing will be refused where no new argument is made, and no new authority adduced, and no material fact is pointed out as overlooked.’ ” Knox v. Batson, 217 Tenn. 620, 399 S.W.2d 765.