Court Opinion

ID: 9832284
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:47:26.740419+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:45.280747
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In his motion for rehearing the plaintiff has assigned alleged errors in the conclusions reached by us as expressed in our original opinion on file. Along with these assignments counsel complains that by the language used by us there is an inference deductible that he had been unfair upon the trial of the case by deliberately injecting into it the information that an insurance company was interested in its defense, and respectfully asks that we amend our findings in a way so as to remove the stigma from his name. Nothing was further from the mind of the court in what was said than to reflect on the integrity of counsel. Our reference to the fact that the objectionable information was the result of a lapse of memory of counsel should dispell this idea. The record warrants the conclu-' sion that, although counsel had been informed that an insurance company was defending the suit, in his zeal and desire to render his client a legitimate service, and in an effort to disclose if he could, the interest and bias of the witness being *501cross-examined, he momentarily forgot the information he had and elicited from the witness the evidence objected to. Aside from all this, we do not believe counsel would have hazarded whatever judgment he might obtain by purposely injecting the matter into the case.
Counsel for defendant likewise has respectfully complained because we stated that the insurance company was defending the suit and “procuring” witnesses for that purpose. Certainly there can be no impropriety in a party “procuring” testimony or in procuring the attendance of witnesses for the presentation of a case or its defense. We disclaim any intention of reflecting upon the good name of counsel for either' party in the language used. We gladly make these statements that the record may be kept straight.
We are not convinced that we erred in the disposition made of the case, and the motion for rehearing is overruled.