Court Opinion

ID: 9832814
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:13:24.04696+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:53.242099
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
We refused to consider appellant’s point complaining of the admission of certain testimony as to the number of telephone exchanges owned by C. H. Jennings, because no assignment of error as to the admission of such testimony appeared in appellant’s motion for a new trial. In its motion for rehearing appellant points out that such assignment was made, but the reference to it was omitted in its brief, and it was overlooked by us. We have considered the point and overrule it. The testimony was elicited on cross-examination of C. H. Jennings. Obviously its purpose was to ascertain why he had no records which showed when particular poles were set at given locations, after he had testified that such records were kept by large telephone companies. In our opinion, the testimony elicited did not go beyond the scope of proper cross-examination. It is now urged that such testimony was prejudicial because it served to contrast the wealth of appellant with the poverty of appellee. No such objection was made at the time the testimony was elicited; the objection was that it was not material in any way, since the suit involved appellant and no other company.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.