Court Opinion

ID: 9454840
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:01:02.394601+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:20.315851
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ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
TUTTLE, Circuit Judge,
Sitting by designation.
In their petition for rehearing the defendants-appellants raise for the first time the propriety of the part of the trial court’s judgment which allows interest to the successful plaintiff “at the rate of six percent per annum from and after February 3, 1967, the date of filing the complaint of Dilley for property damage.” In diversity cases, the federal courts look to the state law with respect to the allowance of interest in the event of recoveries. The Colorado statute permits interest from the date of the filing of the complaint with respect to personal injuries, but not with respect to property damage. Although we consider this a rather late state of the proceedings to attack this part of the judgment for the first time, we conclude that the inclusion of this extra interest is so ■ clearly not authorized and since it involves only a mathematical computation, we feel that justice requires that we give effect to the provisions of the Colorado statute. This requires a modification of the judgment of the trial court by the elimination of interest on the judgment in favor of Dilley between the time of the filing of his suit and the date of the judgment of the trial court.
We have carefully considered the other grounds in the petition for rehearing and find them without merit.
The judgment of the trial court will be modified as indicated. Otherwise, the petition for rehearing is denied.