Court Opinion

ID: 9833831
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:04:12.481074+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:07.257352
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellants complain because the findings- of this court as to the effect of the allegations in abandoned pleadings of the plaintiff below are in conflict with the findings thereon by the trial court. The abandoned pleadings upon which the trial court based its findings were set out in those findings, and are therefore as obvious to this court as to the trial court. That being true, the conclusions of the trial court thereon are not binding upon this court, as they would be upon disputed questions of fact. Those conclusions involve questions of law arising from construction of pleadings which are before this court, as they were before the trial court, and they will be construed by this court without reference to the construction of the court below. Upon this, theory we held, and now reaffirm, that in their previous pleadings appellees set up facts out of which their final claim arose; and, although the theory of final recovery and the measure of damages may have been shifted by subsequent pleadings, the cause of action, as contemplated by the statute of limitations, has never been changed.
Appellants’ motion for rehearing will be overruled.