George T. Houston, III and Mrs. Ruth H. Jarvis Baker v. United States Gypsum Company, a Corporation

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

Before COLEMAN and FAY, Circuit Judges, and KING, * District Judge. COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

The Court was not altogether unmoved by the eloquently written and earnestly presented petition for rehearing filed by able counsel for the appellants in response to- our opinion in this case, 569 F.2d 880. We requested a response from appellee, which was promptly filed in an equally able manner.

In passing on rights of liberty and property, courts are always concerned that no error be made, and the duty is all the more urgent in a case which may correctly be denominated as close…