Kentner v. Gulf Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating general rule that contention not raised in original hearing will not be considered on reconsideration
• discussing policy of promoting finality of appellate court decisions and conserving judicial time
• party cannot introduce evidence in trial court and then claim on appeal that the same evidence is inadmissible
• trial court’s admission of evidence is not reversible when party assigning error introduced the evidence in question at trial
• court chose to reconsider prior opinion on basis of moving party’s argument never advanced until petition for reconsideration
• “The purpose of a rehearing is not to raise new questions or rehash old arguments, but to allow the court to correct mistakes and consider misapprehensions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).