Court Opinion

ID: 9683368
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 13:27:29.980429+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:47.433057
License: Public Domain

OPINION ON PETITION TO REHEAR
Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Company, Defendant-Appellant, files a petition to rehear asserting a ground that counsel believed “inadvertently escaped the attention of the Court: THAT BEING THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE VERDICT OF THE JURY AS TO THE AMOUNT OF THE AWARD FOR THE TRUCK OF TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED ($2200) DOLLARS.”
Counsel is correct that this point escaped our attention. We suspect it was occasioned in part because the point was not specifically assigned as error, nor addressed in the Appellant’s original brief.
Nevertheless, we have considered the question, and in view of the Plaintiff’s testimony that his vehicle was worth between $2500 and $2700, and our belief that the physical evidence rule enunciated in Lowe v. Preferred Truck Leasing, Inc., Tenn.App., 528 S.W.2d 38 (1975), is inapplicable to the facts of this case, overrule the petition.