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Wichita Falls & N. W. R. Co. v. Robinson

Wichita Falls & N. W. R. Co. v. Robinson, 158 P. 893 (Okla. 1916)
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Court
Supreme Court of Oklahoma · State Highest Courts
Decided
July 11, 1916
Docket
No. 7248
Judges
Rummons
Citations
158 P. 89360 Okla. 411916 Okla. LEXIS 1260
Disposition
Reversed and remanded.
Syllabus
Appeal and Error — Briefs—Effect of Failure to File — Reversal. Where plaintiff in error lias completed its record and filed its appeal in this court, and has served and filed a brief in compliance with the rules of this court, and the defendant in error has neither filed a brief nor offered any excuse for such failure, this court is not required to search the record to find some theory upon which the judgment may be affirmed; and, where the brief filed appears reasonably to sustain the assignments of error, the court may reverse the judgment. (Syllabus by Rummons, C.)
Summary
Error from District Court, Beaver County ; W. C. Crow, Judge. Action by G. W. Robinson against the Wichita Falls & Northwestern Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.

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Opinion of the Court — Rummons

Opinion by RUMMONS, C.

The plaintiff in error in this case duly perfected its appeal from the judgment of the court below by filing its petition in error, with the case-made attached, in this court on March 20, 1915. Thereafter it duly served and filed its brief in compliance with the rules of this court, which brief seems to sustain the assignments of error made by plaintiff in error. The defendant in error has neither filed a brief nor offered any excuse for his failure to do so. The rule of this court that, where the brief of the plaintiff in error rea-on-’bly appears to support the assignments of error, this court will not search the record to ascertain same possible theory uoon which the case may be affirmed, but, if the assignments of error appe'-r to be reasonably sup^o-ted by the record and the brief, the case will be reversed, is therefore applicable.

The judgment of the court below should be reversed and the cause remanded.

By the Court: It is so ordered.

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