Case ID: okla_83/html/0139-01.html
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Author: {"author": "KENNAiME®, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STEPP v. TURNER.
    No. 10285
    Opinion Filed Sept. 27, 1921.
    (Syllabus.)
    Appeal and Error >— Review — . Failure of Plaintiff in Error to File Brief.
    Where the plaintiff in error does not appear and fails to file brief, as required by Supreme -Court rule No. 7, and it appears -that he gave a supersedeas bond and the record shows that the appeal is without mer-
    it, this count will -affirm the judgment and render judgment upon the supersedeas bond.
    Error from .County Court, Ottawa County; W. C. Berry, Judge.
    Action by O. W. Turner against A. J. ■Stepp upon an account for $96.35. Judgment in favor of -the plaintiff for $80.10. Defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Dick Rice, (for plaintiff in error.
    C. S. Wortman, for defendant in error.
   KENNAiME®, J.

This is an appeal 'by A. J. 'Stepp, as plaintiff in error, to reverse a judgment rendered in favor of O. W. Turner, defendant in error, in the sum of $80.10, in the county court of Ottawa county, Oklahoma, on the 19th day of July, 1918.

It appears that the time for the plaintiff in error 'to file briefs in this cause has expired, and no showing has been made why the briefs have not 'been filed. In this situation, the court will presume that the plaintiff in error has abandoned his appeal, and under rule No. 7 of this court (47 Okla. vi), it may at its discretion continue the cause, dismiss the appeal, or affirm the judgment. It appearing from the record in this -cause that the plaintiff in error made a, super-sedeas bond on which 6. E. ¡Miller appears as surety, the judgment should be affirmed and rendered upon the bond.

It is, therefore, ordered and decreed 'by the court that the judgment be affirmed, and the defendant in error, O. W. Turner, have judgment against G. E. Miller in the amount of $80.10, with interest at the rate of six per cent, from July 19, 1918, until paid.

All the Justices concur, except Justice Mc-NEIDL, not participating.