Court Opinion

ID: 9832607
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:02:14.862264+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:49.095012
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On Motion for Rehearing.
Near the close of the original opinion filed in this case, we said: “But aside from all other questions discussed, we are of opinion that the appeal of plaintiff in error and each proposition urged therein must be denied, for the basic reason that the claim it is now asserting is not'owing by the Shoe Company, but is the balance due by 'the receiver.” This statement was followed by a discussion based upon data revealed by the record we had before us.
Seizing upón the langüage just quoted, appellant, in the fifth assignment of its motion for rehearing, insists that its motion should be sustained and the judgment below reversed, “Because the court (this court), as a matter of law, erred in not reversing the judgment of the trial court and directing payment to plaintiff in error, having found the debt to be that of the receiver.” And again, referring to same matter, appellant says: “This court has found the debt of plaintiff in error to be that of the receiver — with that finding he (we) have no complaint. Irrespective of what debt it is, as we see it, the situation is the same.”
What we said with reference to the debt being against the. receiver was not necessary to a decision of the case; for reasons previously stated, neither the Shoe Company nor the receiver nor any creditor of the Shoe Company had any right in or to the proceeds of the policy of the insurance, hence, in no event, is plaintiff in error entitled to satisfaction out of said fund, whether as creditor of the Shoe Company or of the receiver.
.The affairs of the receivership were not before us for adjudication, and we did not intend the reference to be a finding of fact against the receiver, as he was not a party to the writ of error; our reference to the matter being simply an argument based upon the record before us, which seemingly showed that plaintiff in error’s claim was the balance due by the receiver.
With this explanation and limitation of the language of the original opinion, under discussion, and finding no reason to change or alter our decision, the motion by plaintiff in error for rehearing and to certify is overruled; and the motions for rehearing by defendants in error are also overruled.