Court Opinion

ID: 9670081
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Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:14:25.005848+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:02.344376
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The following opinion was filed March 31, 1953:
Gehx, J.
(on rehearing). Defendants in their argument upon motion for rehearing call our attention for the first time to two items which should have been brought to our attention and considered originally. They attack the trial court’s findings to the effect that at the time of trial there was on deposit in the Park Savings Bank credited to the account of Florence Engle and Edward C. Engle, Sr., the sum of $7,120, also in the same bank credited to the account of Florence Engle the sum of $1,119.52. The court determined that these were the moneys of the plaintiff. The record discloses that the court was in error in that there was on deposit in that bank only the sum of $7,120. The latter figure is substituted for the figure $8,239.52, where it appears in our original opinion.
The second item called to our attention appears in our statement of the “second” claim allowed the defendants. There appears the recital “Less amount of mortgage on home [the word ‘flat’ should be substituted for the word ‘home’], $6,000.” Apparently the trial court assumed that the pro*522bceeds of the mortgage placed upon the flat by the defendants were retained by them. It appears from the record that the defendants did not retain the proceeds of the mortgage, but that they reached the plaintiff, the greater part thereof having been deposited to his credit in the bank account which we have determined is the property of the plaintiff.
Although the judgment must be modified as we have indicated, in view of the failure of the defendants to assert in the trial court and in their original argument made here their present contentions requiring such modification they cannot be allowed the costs usually allowed to the prevailing party upon an appeal.
In order to avoid the possibility of confusion we consider it necessary to restate the mandate with the required modification.
By the Court. — The judgment is modified to provide that defendants be allowed interest upon their claims, when determined, from the date of the judgment. Subdivision (b) of that part of the judgment which decrees that defendants shall have a claim against plaintiff is modified by striking therefrom the provision “less $6,000, being the mortgage placed thereon,” and by inserting, in lieu of the provision, “a total of $4,145.39,” the provision “a total of $10,145.39.”
The cause is remanded for a determination:
(1) Of the reasonable rental value of the properties and the amount chargeable to the defendants on that account;
(2) Of real-estate taxes paid by the defendants and the amount of credit they should have on that account.
Except as herein modified, judgment affirmed. Cause remanded for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion. No costs will be allowed to either party upon the appeal or upon this motion. The appellant will pay the clerk’s fees on the appeal and on the motion.