Court Opinion

ID: 9828903
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:50:06.564457+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:54.249184
License: Public Domain

On Motion for a Rehearing.
The criticism of that portion of our original opinion holding, in effect, that the error of the trial court, if error, in submitting the issue of immaturity of judgment on the part of Bascom Gathings was participated in by appellant, and it would not therefore be heard to complain of its submission because of certain special charges requested by appellant and given, is based upon an alleged state of facts not sustained by the record. The record does not show that appellant expressly, and in the usual form, asked the trial court to instruct a verdict in its favor. The only special charge found in the record which approaches such an instruction is as follows: “The evidence in this case fails to show that plaintiff’s son, Bascom Gathings, was not capable of understanding, and did not understand, the danger of coming in contact with the shaft on which he was injured.” But if this or any other special charge asked by appellant should be treated as a request for an instructed verdict in its favor, still the opinion of this court in the respect referred to is correct. The record does not show that the special charges requested by appellant, submitting or involving the issue of immaturity of judgment on the part of Bascom Gathings, were asked after the court had acted upon and refused the special charge quoted above, or any peremptory charge requested by appellant for a verdict in its favor, nor does it appear that said special' charges requested by appellant upon the issue of immaturity of judgment were asked to be given in the event the court refused to give a peremptory instruction in favor of appellant. All of appellant’s special charges, apparently, and so far as the record discloses to the contrary, were presented at one and the same time and asked to be given together. In this condition of the record, appellant is in no position to insist that there was no pleading or evidence authorizing the submission of the issue'of immaturity of judgment on the part of Bascom Gathings. Alamo Oil & Refining Co. v. Curvier, 136 S. W. 1132; Alamo Dressed Beef Co. v. Yeargan, 123 S. W. 721; Southwestern States Portland Cement Co. v. Young, 140 S. W. 378.
The motion for a rehearing is overruled.