Court Opinion

ID: 9828262
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:14:45.358372+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:46.708794
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In appellees’ motion for rehearing it is brought to our mind that inadvertently we have confused the different tracts of land in the original opinion in this case, and, such being the case, it is necessary to correct that part of the opinion.
Originally there was a 1,644-acre tract of land, and it was divided into three different lots or parcels, numbered 1, 2, and 3. Lot No. 1 is the lot in controversy, and was said to contain 544 acres. Lot No. 3 contained 575 acres, and lot No. 3 was’ the parcel of land upon which S. S. Adams settled, and out of which afterwards was apportioned by the probate court the 200-acre homestead, and the remaining 375 acres were sold to pay the debts of S. S. Adams, and, as stated in the original opinion, Mrs. W. F. Holloman, née Mrs. S. S. Adams, and her son, conveyed the 200-acre homestead. A survey of lot No. 1, originany stated to contain 544 acres, showed that it contained, in reality, 587 acres. In the original opinion the writer, speaks of this tract being the original homestead tract of 587 acres, when he meant to have spoken of the 575-acre tract as the homestead tract of S. S. Adams, and in the opinion he states that after the homestead of 200 acres was set aside to Mrs. S. S. Adams the remaining 387 acres were sold to pay the debts of S. S. Adams, deceased.
The opinion should have read, where it refers to that tract of land, 575 acres, and not 587 acres, and where it says 387 acres were sold, it should say 375 acres were sold, etc. So that, wherever the expression in said opinion referring to the tract of land in litigation as any other than the original 544-acre tract, which was afterwards found to contain 587 acres, and wherein it refers to the original tract set aside to S. S. Adams, other than as the 575-acre tract, and wherein it refers to the remainder of the homestead tract being sold being 387 acres, is corrected here so as to read, the remaining part of the 575-acre tract, to wit 375 acres, after taking out the 200-acre homestead, was sold to pay the debts of S. S. Adams, deceased,
There was never any confusion as to the disposition of the matter, it being simply a clerical error, by the terms of which the writer of the opinion described the land in controversy as a tract containing a certain number of acres, when in truth and in fact that was not the tract by the, number of acres in litigation.
With this correction and explanation, the motion for rehearing is overruled.