Rich v. Automobile Underwriters, Inc.
Rich v. Automobile Underwriters, Inc.
Opinion of the Court
The appellant sustained an injury to her left knee alleged to have been caused by the negligent operation of a truck by the appellee’s assured. Thereafter the appellee obtained a release and covenant not to sue. This action was brought by the appellant against the appellee to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the appellant because of the fraud of the appellee’s agent in obtaining the release and covenant not to sue. The case has been tried three times. The first trial resulted in a judgment for the appellant which was reversed by the Supreme Court because of the insufficiency of the evidence to show actionable fraud. (222 Ind. 384, 53 N. E. 2d 775.) The case was tried the second time upon the same complaint and again resulted in a judgment for the appellant. Upon appeal to this court we held that the decision of the Supreme Court as to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict was the law of the case upon the facts then before it and that if the evidence before
It is at once apparent that unless the present record contains evidence new and different from that which this and the Supreme Court had before them in the two former appeals the law of the case as therein announced must prevail and the judgment herein affirmed. It is also apparent that with a substantial part of the evidence missing from the appellant’s brief it is impossible for us to say, without resort to the record, that the law of the case as established in the two former decisions does not here apply. In the absence
Judgment affirmed.
Note. — Reported in 146 N. E. 2d 106.
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