Court Opinion

ID: 9768839
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 13:52:34.535113+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:47.296973
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
Bridgewater-Calvin Insurance Associates, Inc. legitimately complains of our reversal of the take-nothing judgment against it. Both Boman and Progressive sought relief against Bridgewater-Calvin. Boman sued Bridgewater-Calvin as a party responsible for having caused him damages; Progressive sought contribution and indemnity. The trial court denied any recovery against Bridgewater-Calvin.
Boman did not appeal from the take-nothing judgment against him on his claims against Bridgewater-Calvin and, thus, that judgment is final. We should have affirmed that part of the judgment and erred in failing to do so.
Bridgewater-Calvin further complains that we should have ruled on Progressive’s only point of error against it. We agree and now address this issue.
On appeal, Progressive’s only complaint against the trial court’s judgment that it take nothing against Bridgewater-Calvin was that, as a matter of law, it was entitled to indemnity. There is evidence which supports the trial court’s failure to find that Progressive is entitled to indemnity. Indeed, Progressive has not pointed out any evidence which would establish that it is entitled, as a matter of law, to be indemnified by Bridgewater-Calvin. Thus, we overrule Progressive’s only claim of error in this regard.
Therefore, we grant Bridgewater-Cal-vin’s motion for rehearing and, insofar as the trial court’s judgment provides that both Progressive and Boman take nothing against it, we affirm the trial court’s judgment; in all other aspects the judgment is reversed and remanded to the trial court.