Court Opinion

ID: 9830807
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:30:53.856169+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:27.154711
License: Public Domain

On Motion of Appellee for a Rehearing.
The construction company did not appeal from the recovery appellee obtained against it, and it was not the intention of this court to disturb the judgment of the court below in that respect. That it was not so stated, directly, in the opinion disposing of the appeal, was due to an oversight of the writer.
If this court erred, as appellee insists it did, in holding that it appeared that Head was a mere trustee for the purpose of holding possession of the warrants, the conclusion reached that a cause of action was not stated against him nor against the surety company was nevertheless correct, we think because it did not appear from the allegations in the petition that a “dispute, discrepancy or other contingency” arose which in any way affected the warrants turned over to Head. If Head held the warrants, and it was not alleged he did not hold them, and if he had not “paid to or credited” any of same to the construction company “except in such amounts” as were shown “by estimates duly allowed and signed by the mayor,” and it was not alleged that he had, he had not breached his undertaking, and a cause of action against either him or the surety company did not exist.
The motion is overruled.