First Texas State Ins. Co. v. Hightower
First Texas State Ins. Co. v. Hightower
Opinion of the Court
The respondent, Mrs. M. A. Burwick, sued the relator, First Texas State Insurance Company, in the county court of Jasper county, to recover $750. The trial was before a jury, to whom special issues were submitted, and on the jury’s answers judgment was entered for said respondent.
The relator did not file in the trial court a motion to set aside the jury’s verdict, nor any of their answers, on the ground that ■same lacked support in the evidence, but relator did object and except to the rendition of the judgment against it, and perfected an appeal, and included in the transcript both the jury’s special verdict and a complete statement of facts.
The relator assigned errors complaining of the action of the county court in entering its judgment, but filed no assignment complaining of the refusal of the county court to grant relator a new trial on the ground that the answers of the jury were unsupported by the evidence.
The Court of Civil Appeals overruled relator’s assignments, urging that the trial court erred in rendering judgment against it on the special verdict because the jury’s answers were without support in the evidence. 193 S. W. 165. The Court of Civil Appeals based its ruling on its conclusion that, unless a motion be made in the trial court to set aside the jury’s answers to special issues, and unless error be assigned to the refusal to grant such motion, then such answers cannot be attacked, on appeal, as without support in the evidence.
The three cases first cited decide that a party may assail findings of fact, as not supported by the evidence, on an exception to the judgment, in cases tried before the court without a jury. There is no conflict between decisions sustaining the right to attack findings of the court for insufficient support in the evidence and a decision denying the right to attack special findings of the jury for lack of evidence to support same. McKay v. Conner, 101 Tex. 314, 107 S. W. 45.
Finding no conflict in the cases, the mandamus is refused.
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