Court Opinion

ID: 9830746
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:26:34.860858+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:26.276503
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
By the statement, contained in the original opinion, that “the defendant below testified positively that he received no notice, either by publication, letter, or otherwise, of any hearing afforded by the board of commissioners,” etc., we did not mean to say, as counsel for appellee seems to have understood us, that the defendant testified that no notice by publication was given — merely that he received no notice, and saw no publication of such notice.
For the first time in its motion for rehearing appellee calls our attention to the fact that defendant below, in his answer to plaintiff’s petition, not only failed to deny having received notice of a hearing, but, in fact, admitted having “received some sort of notice from the plaintiff in reference to the paving of said street, but do not know what such notice was, except in a general way,” etc. We do not feel called upon to reopen the discussion as to this question at this time, and to determine what effect should be given to this qualified admission, in view of our present conclusion that the failure to establish ownership in Roach & Manigan of the improvement certificate would require a reversal of the judgment.
Some question is raised by appellee regarding the following language in our original opinion, to wit:
“But in the absence of any actual hearing afforded the property owners affected, or in the absence of legal notice of such hearing, no controlling effect could be given to the provisions of the charter above'quoted from chapter 14, § 15, supra.”
What we intended to say, as shown by the further context, was that such recital in the certificate was at most merely prima facie proof of the performance by the city of the essential steps to fix the lien upon the property abutting on the streets paved, and that, when other evidence tended strongly to show that no such steps were taken, the prima facie effect of such recital was overcome.
Appellee has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal, and in said motion alleges that the matters in controversy between appellee and appellant have been settled. But said motion to dismiss, as well as its supporting affidavit, fails to show that in fact the matters in controversy have been settled. At most, it is shown that an agreement was entered into, prior to the submission of the case in tMs court, to settle upon a certain basis, but that appellant has up to date failed to comply with the agreement asserted. Hence, even if we were inclined to consider *631such a motion at this late hour, under the circumstances related, yet we think the motion should he overruled, because the motion and affidavit fail to show a settlement; and it is so ordered.