Court Opinion

ID: 9678945
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 06:37:04.652899+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:08.976460
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ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING.
COLEMAN, Justice.
Dorsey Kirkland asks that we treat a question not treated on original deliverance, to wit, the right of Dorsey to enjoin Robert from placing the gate across that part of the boundary way which lies wholly on Dorsey’s own land.
Complainant says that Robert, by placing the gate entirely across the boundary way, blocked Dorsey out from the use of his own half of the way and that the bill contains equity as to this question.
It is true that we did not consider the bill as praying for injunction to forbid Robert from blocking Dorsey’s use of his own half of the boundary way. We did not consider that question because it was not raised on original submission as we understand the briefs.
In that portion of the bill quoted in brief supporting the application for rehearing, Dorsey averred that “unless said gate is removed and plaintiff is given access to said road or private way as he had before the gate was so placed, he will suffer great harm” etc. (Emphasis Supplied.) Dorsey was asking for removal of the entire gate and not merely that part of the gate which blocks the half of the way which is wholly on Dorsey’s land.
We cannot sanction the practice of bringing up new questions for the first time in application for rehearing. Robinson v. Allison, 97 Ala. 596, 604, 12 So. 382, 604.
An application for rehearing on ground not argued or suggested until after our judgment was rendered cannot be now considered. Goodgame v. Dawson, 242 Ala. 499, 504, 7 So.2d 77; Rudolph v. Rudolph, 251 Ala. 317, 319, 36 So.2d 902; Austin v. Pepperman, 278 Ala. 551, 572, 179 So.2d 299.
Since the question was not considered, our decision is not to be understood as holding that Robert has the right to maintain the gate, or any other obstruction, across that part of the way which lies on Dorsey’s land. We will observe that, so far as we are advised, if Robert continues to obstruct Dorsey’s use of his own land, Dorsey would be entitled to enjoin such obstruction.
Opinion extended.
Application overruled.
LIVINGSTON, C. J., and LAWSON and GOODWYN, JJ., concur.