Pittsburg Steel Co. v. Streety
Pittsburg Steel Co. v. Streety
Opinion of the Court
On Rehearing.
Since filing the opinion in this case a petition for rehearing has been filed in which it is suggested that the court in its original opinion fails to consider the eleventh assignment of error, and upon examination we find that the point is well taken. The record in this case is typewritten on very fine tissue paper, and to this thin paper a number of thick and rather cumbersome exhibits are fastened. It is not an easy record to handle without tearing and marring it. And so it is that the writer of the opinion overlooked the eleventh assignment of error. But as the matters presented by' it are argued in the petition for rehearing, it is not necessary to grant the petition, but we will discuss them now.
The eleventh assignment of error is based on the ruling of the court denying the motion for a new trial. The four grounds of the motion here insisted on are:
1st. The verdict is contrary to the evidence; 2nd, the verdict is contrary to the weight and preponderance of the evidence; 3rd, the verdict is not supported by the evidence; 4th, the verdict is contrary to law.
In its original opinion this court said nothing about the sufficiency of the special plea, or of the sufficiency of the replication. We simply said no question of this kind was raised in the court below. Whatever defects the special plea may have we cannot say, and have not intimated, that it presented an entirely immaterial defense — such a defense as would not sustain a judgment. Jones v. Shomaker, 41 Fla., 232, 26 South. Rep., 191.
It is not made a ground of the motion for a new trial, that the case was tried on entirely immaterial issues, and we cannot find any such contention in the briefs. The case was tried on the issues made by the parties, and we can discover no sufficient ground for reversal.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Pittsburg Steel Company, a Corporation, in Error v. J. D. Streety, in Error
- Status
- Published