Court Opinion

ID: 9829674
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:31:18.576808+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:04.044119
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
After having tried this cause below and on original submission here on the sole theory that appellant was guilty of actionable negligence as affected the appellee, its employee, in failing to furnish him a reasonably safe place in which to do his work, the able counsel for the appellee — following the rendition of it against him by this court in response to the holding of the Supreme Court on certification that the questions asked the jury neither submitted the issue of negligence presented by the pleadings and evidence nor embodied a proper predicate for liability thereunder — ■ on rehearing in this tribunal urges that it should have been remanded for another trial rather than rendered, because “appellee’s pleadings and evidence were sufficient to warrant a submission of an issue of appellant’s negligence in failing to take steps to stop and to stop the practice of clip-shooting, after it had induced appellee to continue in appellant’s employ by representing that the same would be done and as a proximate result of such negligence appellee was injured.”
It may be conceded that the pleadings and evidence were sufficient to raise the issue thus now contended for, but the record undis-puitedly further discloses, not only that neither side requested such an issue iri the trial *448court, but also that the appellee failed to' even object there to the special inquiries submitting only the safe-place theory, defending it here as the only proper predicate for liability.
 In these circumstances it seems clear that he waived any right of recovery he may have had on the newly presented claim of negligence, since' it obviously constituted a complete independent ground of recovery in no way correlative, supplemental, or incidental to the special issues so submitted to the jury, under the holding of our Supreme Court in Ormsby v. Ratcliffe, 117 Tex. 242, 1 S.W.(2d) 1084, 1085.
The motion for rehearing will therefore be refused.
Rehearing refused.