Court Opinion

ID: 9768793
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 13:49:46.564589+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:45.458609
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BOND, Chief Justice
(dissenting).
Referring to the record evidence, our original opinion, Tex.Civ.App., 221 S.W.2d 981, of relevant facts and the conclusions here related, the reduced amount of the judgment to $8,518 with approximately two years interest added and two-thirds of the cost of this Court taxed against the appellant, is so excessive that I am unable to concur with the majority. In my opinion the judgment assessing damages to the amount of $12,518 was so manifestly erroneous that the cause should be reversed and remanded, with instruction to the trial court, in a new trial, to ascertain what damages, if any, the plaintiff actually sustained. The remittitur of $4,000 does not cure the error. A new trial is always pertinent to the ends of justice. I respectfully dissent.
Supplemental Opinion.
YOUNG, Justice.
Appellee having in due time filed remitti-tur as suggested in our opinion of May 26, 1950, the judgment of the court below is reformed so as to allow a total recovery of $8,518, and as reformed is affirmed.
Reformed and affirmed.