Court Opinion

ID: 9774170
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 18:10:38.590238+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:03.221906
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To the Merits on Second Motion for Réhearing
A reconsideration of the record leads us to the conclusion that this cause should be affirmed on ground sufficiently set forth in Memorandum Opinion of November 18, 1955, on which date we sustained appellee’s second motion for rehearing. Otherwise stated, defensive issue No. 26 on proximate cause was submitted conditionally without objection. We find it impossible to avoid the effect of Little Rock Furniture Mfg. Co. v. Dunn, supra, in the holding “that where the charge of the court instructs the jury to answer a special issue only conditionally, and the jury in compliance with the instruction fails to answer the issue, a party who did not object to the conditional submission waives the right to have the issue answered and also necessarily waives the right to any benefits which he might receive from a favorable answer to such issue.”
The judgment under review is therefore affirmed;- readopting in such connection our statement of the case as made in original opinion (282 S.W.2d 307), save as here-inabove indicated.
Affirmed.