Court Opinion

ID: 9580996
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:10:56.03917+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:38.900719
License: Public Domain

Whitman, J.
I concur in the additional opinion on Motion to Rehear insofar as it constitutes a judgment denying the motion for rehearing. I do not agree with the opinion on the motion for rehearing which appears to hold that the amendment of plaintiff in the court below of October 11, 1967, converted the original complaint sounding in contract into a new cause of action ex delicto as to the amount of $10,000 sued for in the original complaint, together with the claim for punitive damages. It is my view that the amendment merely undertook to add punitive or exemplary damages to the original ex contractu complaint; and, therefore, I would deny the motion for rehearing filed by appellee Garland, defendant in the court below, and adhere to the writer’s opinion concurring in part with and dissenting in part from the original opinion on appeal.