Court Opinion

ID: 9646305
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 12:55:58.843625+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:36.908428
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
On motion for rehearing, Boyles argues that Kerr had expressly waived in open court every ground for recovery except negligent infliction of mental distress. We have reviewed the statement made by Kerr’s attorney concerning the requested charge. The comments do not establish that the counsel for Kerr intended to waive any grounds for relief, but rather that counsel considered these grounds subsumed under the broad submission to the jury.
*262-264Counsel also calls our attention to the recent case of Reagan v. Vaughn, 804 S.W.2d 463 (1990). In this case, the Supreme Court addressed an award for mental anguish based upon a situation involving a third party who suffered mental anguish because of an injury to her father. The present case is not a by-stander situation, but rather is a case dealing with direct injuries by the tortfeasors upon Kerr.
Boyles attempts in his amended motion for rehearing to raise a new point of error that was not raised in the original brief. Errors not raised in an appellant’s initial brief are waived. In the Matter of R.L.H., 771 S.W.2d 697 (Tex.App. — Austin 1989, writ denied).
The motion for rehearing is overruled.