Court Opinion

ID: 9825372
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 12:47:28.900465+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:45.384036
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On Rehearing.
Counsel for appellants, on their application for rehearing, have satisfactorily explained the confusion that caused their brief filed on the submission of this cause in this court to deal with matters not shown by the record; *57but, inasmuch as both appellants and the appellee have by written agreement on file and in their briefs, expressed the desire that the case be treated as though the record actually showed the changes, purported to be made after the filing of their brief, to have been originally incorporated in the same, we see no occasion to change anything we have heretofore said regarding the issues as made and determined on the trial of the ease in the court below. Appellants’ counsel, in their brief filed on this application, argue very ably and persuasively that the trial court committed reversible error in overruling their motion for a new trial. However, we are unable to agree with them. While it may be that plaintiff’s (appellee’s) evidence was rather weak, yet it was substantial, and we do not feel authorized to set our judgment in the place of that of the jury who tried the case, and of the trial judge who refused the motion for a new trial, both of whom had the advantage of seeing and hearing the witnesses who testified.
So far as the very earnest insistence of counsel for the appellants that the trial court erred in refusing said motion on the ground that the proof showed; plaintiff to be entitled to $6,000 or nothing is concerned, we might add that the record discloses that a certain tract of land belonging to Mrs. Lucy W. Chaney, individually, and not included in plaintiff’s contract, was sold with and at the same time as the other lands,vand for aught that we can say the jury might have therefore within their province concluded that the .amount of the verdict as returned was proper compensation to be awarded plaintiff.
The application for rehearing is overruled.
Overruled.