Case ID: okla_96/html/0290-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "COCHRAN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WAYNE OIL TANK & PUMP CO. v. FIRST NAT. BANK.
    No. 12685
    Opinion Filed Jan. 15, 1924.
    (Syllabus.)
    Appeal and Error — Preserving Error — Directing Verdict.
    This court will not review a decision of the trial court in directing a verdict, unless the alleged error is presented to the trial court in a motion for new trial.
    Error from District Court. Custer County; Thomas A. .Edwards, Judge.
    Henry Bulow, for plaintiff in error.
    E. L. Mitchell, for defendant in error.
    Action by the Wayne Oil Tank & Pump Company against the First National Bank of Clinton. Judgment for defendant, and. plaintiff brings error.
    Affirmed.
   COCHRAN, J.

The plaintiff in ¡error states in its brief that the only specification of error which it desires to present is “that the trial court- erred in instructing the jury to return a verdict for the defendant.’’ '

A-u examination of the record disch sos that a motion for a new (rial was filed in this .case, but the alleged error in instructing a verdict for the defendant was not presented in the, motion for a new trial. Tins court has repeatedly held that it will not review a decision of .the trial court in directing a verdict un’ess the same is presented to the trial court by a motion for. new trial. Brown & Bridgeman v. Western Casket Company, 3 Okla. 144, 120 Pac. 1001; Board of Com’rs. of Beaver County v. Langston et al., 41 Okla. 715, 139 Pac. 956; Ardmore Oil & Milling Co. v. Doggett Grain Co., 32 Okla. 280, 122 Pac. 241; Stump v. Porter et al., 31 Okla. 157, 120 Pac. 639.

The action of the trial -court in directing a verdict not having been presented in the motion for new trial, this court will not review the alleged error. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

All the Justices concur.