Court Opinion

ID: 9827714
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 17:47:47.906193+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:35.056101
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In appellants’ motion for a rehearing, immediately following their eighteenth assignment of error copied therein, they say: “The ■court erred in affirming the judgment ordering partition of the land in controversy between the plaintiffs and intervener, because the judgment divests defendant, Mrs. M. A. Oar, of her one-third life estate in said land.” This is the first time this question has been raised. Mrs. M. A. Oar was a party to the ■suit, and her right, if she had any, to a one-third life estate in the land recovered by the plaintiffs, and ordered partitioned without any notice being taken of any such right, was not made an issue in the court below, and no question raised about it in appellants’ motion for a new trial, or in their assignments of error, or briefs filed in this court. Not having pleaded this matter, or in any way invoked the aid or action of the court below to protect the interest of Mrs. Oar in a life estate of one-third of the land, appellants cannot be heard to complain for the first time in the manner attempted here. Had an issue been made in the trial court as to whether or not Mrs. Oar was entitled to have set apart to her for and during her life one-third of the land in controversy, in the event the plaintiffs should recover, it might have been shown, if such was the fact, that Mrs. Oar had, by deed or otherwise, parted with her life estate in said land. It is the province of an appellate court, ordinarily, to decide only those questions which were passed upon by or presented to the court below, and which are properly presented in such court for review.
The other questions presented in the motion for rehearing were carefully considered before the original opinion was written, and we see no good reason to change the views therein expressed in relation thereto.
The motion for rehearing is therefore overruled.