Court Opinion

ID: 9830683
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:23:18.9054+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:25.615548
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
The appellant in this case presents a supplemental brief for the consideration of this court, accompanying its motion for rehearing, and also insists that we erred in not considering the assignments in their original brief, upon which the cause was submitted, contending that, as certain provisions of the insurance policy were set out in the preliminary statement of the nature and result of the suit as a part of the pleadings in the cause, we should have considered those provisions because the suit was based upon written contract. We, of course, noticed this on our former consideration of the case; that is that certain provisions were set out as having been pleaded by the appel-lee, and that the appellant insurance company also sets out a part of its own pleading in which it alleges that plaintiff failed to copy in its petition the whole of a certain paragraph and purports to copy the same as a part of the pleading. Under none of the assignments or propositions is there any reference to that part of the pleadings germane to any question involved, even if this court could possibly consider a statement of the pleadings as equivalent to a statement as being the same which should have been extracted from the statement of facts. The uncertainty of a matter of this kind is illustrated by this very brief, where the defendant in the court below pleaded that the plaintiff did not set out enough of the contract with reference to which plaintiff relies for its cause of action. All of the provisions of the insurance policy, which we have to presume are relied upon by the appellant as defeating the appellee’s cause of action, are merely stated as being in the pleadings, and we think it would be anomalous for a higher court to have to resort to a preliminary statement of this character and make the pleadings a part of a statement, under appellant’s assignments and proposition, in aid of its contentions as to the reversal of the cause. If there was not any statement of facts in the record, then to take the pleadings as equivalent to issues proven would be an intolerable assumption by a higher court, and almost equally so would be our action in the condition of this record. Our consideration of the supplemental brief in this matter would require a setting aside of the submission of this cause and a resubmission of the same at some future date, with an order that the appellee be given opportunity and time to answer said supplemental brief, which we do not feel warranted in doing. .
The motion for .rehearing and to file the supplemental brief is in all things overruled.