Court Opinion

ID: 9831239
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:57:22.264176+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:33.027860
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On Motion for Rehearing.
We are asked by appellee to modify our judgment, reversing the judgment of the trial court and remanding the cause generally, so as to affirm that part of the judgment of the district court by which appellee recovered the interest acquired by assignment from Rosie Xanowsky.
[13] In our original opinion we treated the contract of insurance as a joint contract, because the appellee, as well as the appellant, the jury, and the trial court had so treated it. ’ Since, however, appellee asks for a severance in his motion for rehearing, and since the contract on its face shows that it was the intention of all parties to the contract that it should be a severable contract (Keary v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass’n [C. C.] 30 Fed. 359; Emmeluth v. Home Benefit, 122 N. Y. 130, 25 N. E. 234, 9 L. R. A. 704; 6 Ruling Case Law 858, § 246; Pioneer Co. v. Phoenix Co., 110 N. C. 176, 14 S. E. 731, 38 Am. St. Rep. 673; Coleman v. Insurance Co., 49 Ohio St. 310, 31 N. E. 279, 16 L. R. A. 174, 34 Am. St. Rep. 565; 1 Story on Cont. [5th Ed.] § 26; 1 Addison on Contracts [Morgan’s Ed.] 80, § 42, notes 1 and 2), we conclude that appellee’s motion should be granted (Rule 62a for Courts of Civil Appeals [149 S. W. x]; Nona Mills Co. v. Jackson, 159 S. W. 932; Johnson v. Conger, 166 S. W. 406).
The judgment of the trial court is reversed only as to that part affected by the fundamental error,. which is the interest claimed as an heir and by assignment from the other heirs of Shopsy Xanowsky. The judgment as to the interest acquired by assignment from Rosie Xanowsky is to be deemed' conclusive, and so taken in entering the final judgment to be rendered in the case upon trial of the other issues.
The judgment of the trial court is reversed in so far as it affects the interest claimed from Shopsy Xanowsky, and the cause remanded.