Court Opinion

ID: 9830603
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:19:04.619694+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:24.717056
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellees now confess there was error in the allowance to them of the $581.81 for freight, etc., on one car of white oak lumber returned to the seller because of the machine’s failure to make flooring out of it, together with 6 per cent, interest per annum thereon from September 16, 1922, to June 22, 1924, or $61.59 more, aggregating an admitted excess in the trial court’s judgment in their favor of $643.40.
It has also satisfactorily been made to appear that the $2,096.94 awarded them did not include the $1,000 claimed for lost profits on this same lumber, as we before thought, but was made up of these items:
(a) Freight on machine.$ 266 40
(b) Unloading charge on machine. 25 00
(c) Labor, installing machine..!.. 106 64
(d) Labor, operating machine. 657 85
(e) Damage to white . oak lumber, run through machine . 260 00
(£) Freight, etc., on unused car o£ lumber.. 581 81
Totaling . $1,807 70
$199.24, as 6 per cent, interest on this $1,-897.70 to the date of the trial, was added, yielding the amount adjudged.
*603On mature reconsideration, we conclude that, after striking out this $643.40, the resulting $1,453.54 of the recovery may he upheld. As originally stated, the first two items of the balance, (a) and (b), for freight and unloading charges, were shown to have been incurred as alleged; evidence pointed out upon rehearing is at least susceptible of the finding that (c) and (d), for labor accounts in installing and thereafter operating the machine, respectively, were separate and distinct charges for work actually done upon this machine, and should be given that construction ; moreover, appellant seems to have presented no contention that they impinged each other; the evidence referred to likewise sustains the allowance of item (e) of $260 for depreciation in the value of the lumber run through the machine in the effort to make flooring of it.
Appellees’ motion for rehearing will therefore be granted, and the trial court’s judgment, after being so reformed as to reduce it to $1,453.54 as of the date of its rendition, will be in all things affirmed.
Reformed and affirmed.