Court Opinion

ID: 9830836
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:32:42.800822+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:27.442183
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
Appellees assert that they relied upon the following quotation from Curdy v. Stafford, referred to in our original opinion, rather than the quotation therein given, and ask that we make this correction in opinion on rehearing:
“But even if the description in question admits of the construction that it means Cunningham’s interest in an undefined part of the certificate, it may also, without doing violence to the language, be construed to mean the part which he owned and claimed; and that construction should be adopted which would give effect to the conveyance, rather than that which would destroy it. We conclude, therefore, the objection on the ground of uncertainty in the description cannot be maintained.”
In reversing and rendering the judgment of the lower court in this cause by our opinion filed on the 22d of April, we overlooked the fact that appellees also pleaded a defense by limitation and introduced proof raising the issue thus pleaded. This issue was not submitted to the jury. It follows, of course, that our judgment of rendition against this plea must be set aside. Appellees’ motion for rehearing is, therefore, granted to that extent. The judgment of the lower court is reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.