Case ID: okla_102/html/0074-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BELKNAP HDWE. & MFG. CO. v. FOWLER.
    No. 12524
    Opinion Filed April 22, 1924.
    Rehearing Denied May 27, 1924.
    (Syllabus.)
    Appeal and Error — Absence of Answer Brief —Reversal.
    It is a well-established rule of this court that Where the plaintiff in error’s brief duly filed, as provided by the rules, reasonably sustain» the assignments of errer relied upon for a reversal of the cause, and the defendant in error has filed no brief within the time prescribed by the rules, nor requested an extension of time within which to do so, this court will not search the record with the view of ascertaining some theory on which the judgment of the trial court may be sustained, but will reverse and remand .the same to the trial court for a new trial. The situation in the instant case falling within the provisions of this rule, this cause is reversed and remanded to the county court of Cotton county.
    Error from County Court, Cotton County; J. O. Norman Judge.
    Action- between the Belknap Hardware & Mfg. Company and J. A. Fowler. Fr.om the judgment, the former brings error.
    Reversed and- remanded.
    R. H. Galyen, for plaintiff in error.
    W. A. Ruggles, for defendant in error.
   BRANSON, X

The plaintiff in error, Bel-knap Hardware & Manufacturing Company, a corporation, prosecutes this appeal from the county court of Cotton county, Okla., to reverse a judgment rendered, by said court in civil cause No. 164 on -the docket of said court, wherein the defendant in error, J. A. Fowler, recovered a judgment for a certain sum of money against the plaintiff in error. Numerous errors are' assigned for the reversal of this cause, and to support the same the plaintiff in error on August 15, 1923, filed a brief herein, which was duly served upon the defendant.

The defendant in error. has filed no answer brief in this cause, nor ; requested, any extensión of time within which to file the same.

The well-established rule of this court is that where the. plaintiff in error files brief to support the assignments of error set out in the petition in error, and the defendant in error does not filé a brief within the time provided by the rule of this court, nor request an extension of time within which to file such brief, tbis court will not search the record with the view, of ascertaining some theory .on which the judgment of the trial court may .be affirmed, but if the brief of the plaintiff in error reasonably sustains the assignments of error made, this court will reverse and remand the cause to the trial court.

We have examined the brief filed in support of the assignments of error,' and the same reasonably sustains the assignments, and following the rule, supra, this cause is reversed and remanded to- the county court of Cotton county for a new trial.

JOHNSON, C. J., and McNEILL, NICHOLSON, COCHRAN, HARRISON, and WARREN, JJ., concur.