Court Opinion

ID: 9832900
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:17:02.691827+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:55.080690
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On Appellee’s Motion for Rehearing.
Since we announced our original opinion reversing the judgment in the above cause, appellee has filed herein a remittitur in the sum of $408.88, thereby reducing her judgment to the sum of $2,000, and she now asks that we affirm the judgment of the trial court. The remittitur brings the amount of the recovery within .the amount properly alleged in the petition, and therefore the error for which we previously reversed the judgment of the trial court has been cured.
Since the defendant defaulted in the lower court, it thereby admitted the truth of all the facts properly alleged in the petition, except the amount of damages. 25 Tex.Jur 403, 406. The petition is sufficient to authorize the amount recovered, less the remittitur, and there is no assignment of error nor proposition properly challenging a sufficiency of the evidence to support the amount of the recovery. Appellant,'in a reply to appellee’s motion for rehearing, contends that its second assignment of error is sufficient for this purpose. This assignment is as follows: “This Honorable Court erred in entering judgment herein against this de-*335icndant in the sum of $2715.35.” It has been held many times that assignments of error couched in such general terms are insufficient to raise the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the amount of the recovery. Court of Civil Appeals Rules Nos. 24, 25, and 26; 3 Tex.Jur. 860; Yoe v. Montgomery, 68 Tex. 338, 4 S.W. 622; Morris v. Standard Accident Ins. Co., Tex.Civ.App., 35 S.W.2d 207, par. 1; Bonner v. Whitcomb, 80 Tex. 178, 15 S.W. 899.
The judgment of reversal heretofore rendered by this court is set aside. Appellee’s motion for rehearing- is granted and judgment of the trial court, less the amount of the remittitur, is affirmed. Since appellee was forced to grant a remittitur in order to secure, an affirmance in this court, she will be required -to pay the costs of this appeal.