Court Opinion

ID: 9668986
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 02:35:49.05413+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:50.949039
License: Public Domain

On Petition to Rehear.
The landowner and lessee have filed herein very forceful, able and courteous petitions to rehear. We have carefully considered these petitions.
We find that the petition of the landowner presents to all intents and purposes the same forceful argument made in the original brief in response to the petition for certiorari and the argument so well made before this Court. It is true that this petition points out certain rules of law that are well established in this State, which, it is thought by the petition to rehear, that by reason of our original opinion, we have changed or overruled. There was no intention on our part, nor is there now, to overrule and of these principles which are clearly applicable when the situation arises wherein those principles were *594adopted. We do. feel though, for reasons stated in this opinion that justice and equity can only be arrived at by a re-trial of the case.
The lessee takes the position in his petition to rehear that there was never any complaint as to the amounts awarded him in the first instance and that thus the award made the lessee should be affirmed and he should not have to go through a second trial. We think though that it is necessary out of an abundance of precaution to see that equity, justice and right is accomplished that the whole matter be remanded for a new trial.
Under Section 23-1414, T.C.A., supplement to the Code, the lessee is entitled to compensation for his “reasonable expense of such removal” and these “shall be considered in assessing incidental damages.” The Legislature in enacting this Section clearly fixed it as a part of the damages to a lessee or another the removal of things like those of the lessee herein, and these must be fixed as under the rules fixing incidental damages, as laid down by our previous decision. We think unquestionably that this subject of moving expenses of personal property as a result of the appropriation of this real property is fixed by this statute as a legitimate one.
For the reasons above stated the petitions to rehear must be overruled and the cause remanded for a trial consistent with our original opinion and this opinion on the petitions to rehear.