Case ID: okla_123/html/0237-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39, OSAGE COUNTY, v. MALONE, Co. Supt.
    No. 15990
    Opinion Filed April 21, 1925.
    Rehearing Denied Feb. 5, 1927.
    Appeal and Error — Failure to File Answer Brief — Reversal.
    Upon authority of Ellis v. Outler, 25 Okla. 469, 106 Pae. 957. the judgment of the trial court will be reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial for failure of th'e defendant in error to file answer briefs as required by Rule 7 of the Rules of the Supreme Court.
    (Syllabus by Ruth, 0.)
    Commissioners’ Opinion, Division No. 3.
    Error from District Court, Osage County; Jess’e J. Worten, Judge
    Action by School District No. 39, Osage County, against Ella Malone, County Superintendent. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
    Reversed.
    Kenneth H. Lott and Wilson. Murphey & Duncan, for plaintiff in error.
   Opinion by

RUTH. C

This action was brought by the plaintiff in error filing its petition praying that a writ of mandamus issue, directed to the defendant, Ella Malone, requiring her, as county superintendent of Osage county, to approve a teacher’s contract duly enter’ed into between the school board of school district No. 39, of Osage county, and one Hattie Beck.

An alternative writ was issued, response was filed, and upon hearing had, a peremptory writ of mandamus was denied, and from a judgment of the court denying the peremptory writ, the plaintiff .appeals.

Plaintiff filed its bri'efs as required by the rules of this court, and defendant has wholly failed to file briefs as required by' Rule 7 of this court, or to assign any reason ’ for failure to file the ¡same, and upon the authority of Ellis et al. v. Outler et al., 25 Okla. 469, 106 Pac. 957, the judgment of the trial court is reversed and the cause re-' mand'ed for a new trial.

By the Court: It is soi ordered.