Court Opinion

ID: 9639860
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 16:50:16.026207+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:22.475584
License: Public Domain

Appellant’s Motion for Rehearing
Appellant Norvell Service Company has filed a motion for rehearing, praying that final judgment be rendered in its favor for the reason that the cause has been tried three times, the evidence has been fully developed, and a remand would serve no useful purpose.
Our opinion on rehearing points out deficiencies in some circumstantial proof, but evidence of some details seems unavailable, as we stated in that opinion, and it is unlikely that some other details existed which we referred to in an argumentative way, so that, on reconsideration of that opinion it seems improbable that additions to this body of circumstantial proof would be material to judgment. Evidence regarding other matters, those discussed in our original opinion, has been even more fully developed. Because of all this and the opportunity to adduce proof which the several proceedings in the trial court have given the parties, we have concluded that the evidence before us represents the substance of the proof on which the parties rely and that the appellant’s motion may be, and the same is hereby granted.
It appears, too, that we have previously directed a reversal of the trial court’s judgment generally, without taking account of the fact that the defendant Burt Stone did not appeal.
Therefore our former judgment is set aside and judgment is now rendered that the trial court’s judgment be reversed as between the parties to the appeal, namely, the appellant Norvell Service Company and the appellees Fullman C. Spell and United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, and that said appellees take nothing against said appellant.