Court Opinion

ID: 9689139
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 18:21:33.598263+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:45.412660
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ON REHEARING
BRADLEY, Judge.
In its application for rehearing, appellant suggested that this court failed to consider his assignment of error twenty which raised the correctness of the trial court’s ruling whereby the witness Nelson was permitted to answer this question: “What was the contract price ?”
We did consider the assignment of error as discussed in the brief but deemed it waived, for that it failed to meet the requirements of Supreme Court Rule 9. This rule requires that the assignment of error be substantially argued in brief, and where there has been only an insistence of error without citation of authority, the requirements of the rule have not been satisfied. Alabama Elec. Co-Operative, Inc. v. Partridge, 284 Ala. 442, 225 So.2d 848; Grant v. Grant, 52 Ala.App. 365, 292 So.2d 660. We therefore deemed that assignment waived.
*230Had the assignment of error been properly presented for consideration, the effort would have produced a negative result.
The ruling of the court permitting Nelson to answer the question must have been so erroneous as to have prejudiced the rights of appellant. Bates v. Rentz, 262 Ala. 681, 81 So.2d 349.
Mr. Nelson, after having been asked the amount of the invoices submitted to appellant for the work done, was then asked what the contract price had been. He was being asked in a shorthand way what the agreed-on price was to be for the work to be performed. Nelson had already testified as to the total amount sought for the work done and was now being asked for a breakdown, in effect, of that amount. He answered the question by saying, “We had a price of $2.65 per square yard for base and paving.” And, considering the context in which it was asked, it was not so prejudicial as to injure the appellant’s rights. Supreme Court Rule 45.
Opinion extended.
Application for rehearing overruled.
WRIGHT, P. J., and HOLMES, J., concur.