Green v. First Nat. Bank of Kansas City
Decision Date | 15 June 1942 |
Citation | 173 S.W.2d 763,236 Mo.App. 1257 |
Parties | GUY GREEN, GUARDIAN, RESPONDENT, v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KANSAS CITY, APPELLANT |
Court | Kansas Court of Appeals |
Original Opinion of June 15, 1942, Reported at: 236 Mo.App. 1257.
Motion overruled.
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.
In its motion for rehearing, the defendant contends that we have misconstrued the record in holding that the trial court did not assign in its order any specific ground for sustaining plaintiff's motion for new trial. It is defendant's position that the statement of the court, which is set out in full in our original opinion herein, was intended and considered by the trial court to be a part of the order sustaining the motion, and again directs our attention to the statement of the court which appears in the bill of exceptions and in its abstract of the record. Among other things, defendant's abstract of the record proper, after reciting the verdict and judgment and the filing of the motion for new trial, states:
Then follows the statement of the court and the attorneys, which is set out in full in our original opinion and will not be again copied.
We held in our original opinion, and see no reason to change our view, that the statement of the court and the attorneys was not a part of the order sustaining the motion for new trial, but was an oral statement by the court of the reasons for its action. It must be kept in mind that the decisions excepted to and appealed from is the order granting a new trial, and it is the correctness of that ruling, and not the reason for it, that the appellate court is called upon to review. [State ex rel. v. Thomas, 245 Mo. 65, l. c. 75; Cole v. St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co., 332 Mo. 999, 61 S.W.2d 344, l. c. 1010.]
The order made by the court sustaining the ...
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