Court Opinion

ID: 9833599
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:52:08.141152+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:04.840448
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On Motion for Rehearing.
[14] Appellees urge, in their motion for a" rehearing, that this court erred in sustaining appellant’s assignments of error numbered 6, 7, 8, 10, and 11 for the reason .that said assignments complained of the errors of the trial court in either giving charges or refusing charges to the jury, and that there are no bills of exception in the record to the action of the court complained of in the assignments, and therefore this court had no power to consider and determine such assignments.
Both parties to this appeal filed lengthy and able briefs, but appellees nowhere in their brief made any objection to .the consideration of these assignments. Nor was our attention ever called to the fact that no bills of exception were reserved to .the action of the court in such matter until the motion for a rehearing was filed. Under rule 40 this court is authorized to rely upon the briefs for a proper presentation of .the case on appeal, without an examination of the record; and to assume that if there were any objections to .the assignments or to the matters upon which- the same were predicated, the other party would call our attention to it. Rule 41 (142 S. W. xiv), expressly provides that:
“Whatever of the statements of appellant or plaintiff in error in his brief is not contested will be considered as acquiesced in.”
We did not go into the lengthy transcript to see if there were preserved bills of exception, but assumed that, if counsel for appel-lees -had any objection to the consideration of said assignments, the same would have been made known to us. Appellant insists that objections or exceptions were preserved and are shown in the record; but .that is aside from the question. To tolerate a practice of this kind would virtually require a resubmission of the case. Certainly another consideration along a line not heretofore presented to us. It' would be equivalent to giving a party two opportunities to brief the case. No matter what disposition this court would have made of these assignments, had timely objection been made, when able coun*1150sel present .to us a brief upon all of tliem, in which 'they are presumed to urge every point favorable to them and do not raise the question, now for the first time urged, until a motion for rehearing, this court will consider that any other objection not contained in the brief was waived, unless it be some matter of fundamental law. And this is not a question of fundamental law, being purely one of procedure.
Other matters require a reversal anyway, and the motion for rehearing by appellee is overruled; and a like disposition is made of appellant’s motion for rehearing.