Court Opinion

ID: 9834378
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:32:18.12448+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:14.359326
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellee in his motion for rehearing asserts that we should not have reformed the judgment herein as to the items of repairs and loss of custom, for the reasons: (1) That appellant, in its motion to enter judgment herein, allowed these items; and (2) because the appellant did not assign error on entering judgment in favor of appellee for these items.
It is true that appellant, in its motion for judgment herein, allowed these items in favor of appellee. But the requested judgment must be looked to as a whole, and cannot be considered as the admission of the justice of any item allowed by the court upon a different theory. Appellant’s motion to *548enter judgment was based on the theory that appellee was chargeable with $3,000 as the rental value of the elevator. In such event it would have been proper to have charged appellant with the cost of repairs while using the same, and perhaps with the loss of profits occasioned by the elevator being out of repairs. If appellant’s' motion to enter judgment had been granted, the judgment would have been in its favor for $984.55, instead of against it for $764.65.
It is also true that appellant did not specifically assign error as to the two items mentioned, but the allowance of these items is fundamental error. It is apparent upon the face of the record that no issue as to these items should have been submitted to the jury. The findings thereon were immaterial, and should Jiave .been disregarded in entering judgment. Upon the finding of the jury on the material issues, the trial court should have entered the judgment indicated in our opinion herein, and, this not having been done, it is our duty to render such judgment as the trial court should have rendered. R. S. art. 1626.
Motion overruled.