Court Opinion

ID: 9829004
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:54:56.475772+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:56.288644
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
This suit was one to set aside a settlement of contractual liability on the part of the appellant, which settlement was induced by the fraudulent representations of appellant.
The appellant does not allege any liability to it by its codefendant W. B. Hamilton, and does not pray for any judgment against him at any event. The judgment rendered in favor of Bryan and Sharp, plaintiffs, is a joint and several judgment against the defendants Medical Arts Building Corporation and W. B. Hamilton. Further, the judgment provides that upon the payment by W. B. Hamilton to the plaintiffs herein of the sum of $8,875, as provided for in said judgment, he be discharged from any other and further liability to the plaintiffs and be discharged from any liability to the defendant Western Medical Arts Building Corporation, upon his contract to pay the fees of the architects, except as to the payment of the balance of the sum of $12,750, less the cost ancl attorney’s fees.
The Medical Arts Building Corporation not having filed any cross-action against its co-defendant Hamilton, to recover the balance over and above the $8,875 which Hamilton had agreed to pay, the trial court had no power to render judgment for this balance, but properly left it to future adjustment between the Medical Arts Building Corporation and Hamilton.
The appellant’s motion for rehearing is therefore overruled.