Court Opinion

ID: 9815341
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 00:44:20.659774+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:46.560140
License: Public Domain

On Motion for rehearing.

Per Curiam.

Defendant has filed a motion for reconsideration and rehearing. It endeavors to support its contentions by quoting from our. opinion. In so doing it has imputed a meaning to our words which was surely not intended and which we believe the language does not support.
In any event, it is the function of the reviewing court in such a case, not to find the facts but to determine whether the conclusions of the trial court are adequately supported by the evidence.
*130Bearing this principle in mind, we determined that there was sufficient evidence to support findings that the original terms of credit were 30 days net; that when the account became delinquent an arrangement was made to pay $5.50 per casting delivered to the government in order to liquidate the past due balance; and that this was a collection measure and not a change in the terms of credit.
Analyzing the evidence, we pointed out that by this method the delinquent balance was substantially reduced, and that pending the early stages of such collection no further deliveries were-made until March 4, when a comparatively small additional amount of merchandise was delivered. It by no means follows, .nor did we say, that the further delivery of March 4 was upon new and different terms of credit.
We referred to “the arrangement for payment of $5.50 per casting as a collection plan for reducing the past due amount rather than a change in the credit terms.” Surely this statement does not justify the implication that we construe the new shipments of March 4 to be upon the collection terms of $5.50 per casting rather than upon the original terms of thirty days net. Nor does the evidence require such a conclusion. On the contrary, the evidence does in our opinion justify the trial court in finding that the terms of credit were not changed so as to release the surety.
To summarize, therefore, it is our opinion that the evidence was such as to support findings of fact upon which the judgment could reasonably be based. It therefore became our duty to affirm the judgment.
The motion for reconsideration and rehearing is overruled.

Motion overruled.

Crawford, P. J., Kerns and Sherer, JJ., concur.