Case ID: okla_60/html/0089-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CAMPBELL, C.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HILLIGOSS v. WEBB et al.
    No. 6707
    Opinion Filed July 25, 1916.
    (159 Pac. 291.)
    1. Appeal and Error — Record—Review.
    The trial court sustained a general demurrer to the amended petition, and rendered judgment for costs against plaintiff. The record fails to show that either the order sustaining demurrer or the final judgment awarding costs was entered of record in the trial court. Held, that the record presents no question to this court for review under assignments of error predicated thereon.
    
      2. Appeal and Error — Briefs—Failure to File — Abandonment.
    Where plaintiff in error fails to file brief as required by rule 7 of this court (38 Okla. x), and offers no excuse for his failure to so comply with such rule, the appeal will be deemed to have been abandoned, and will be dismissed for want of prosecution.
    (Syllabus by Campbell, C.)
    Error from District Court, Pontotoc County ; Tom D. McKeown, Judge.
    Action by S. M. Hilligoss, general agent, etc., against James E. Webb and another. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error.
    Dismissed.
    C. F. Green, for plaintiff in error.
    B. H. Epperson and Holt, Webb & Ennis, for defendants in error.
   Opinion by

CAMPBELL, C.

This action was commenced in the district court of Pon-totoc county for Hie recovery of a personal judgment against defendants. A general demurrer was sustained to the amended petition. and plaintiff elected to 'stand upon his petition and a judgment was rendered against plaintiff for costs. This proceeding in error was commenced by filing in this court a petition in error, with case-made attached, to have the judgment of the trial court reviewed. The record fails to show that the order of the trial court sustaining the general demurrer to the amended petition was entered of record in the trial court; also the record fails to show that the judgment of the trial court for costs against the plaintiff was entered of record in the trial court. Under numerous decisions of this court, the record presents no question for review for the above reasons.

In Graham v. Graham, 57 Okla. 672, 157 Pac. 740. it was held:

“A purported order of the trial court sustaining a demurrer to a petition is without force where the case-made fails to show affirmatively that such order was entered of record pursuant to sections 5143, 5324, Rev. Laws 1910.”
The petition in error with case-made attached was filed in this court on August 5, 1914, and this cause has been regularly assigned for submission and has been duly submitted, after notice to plaintiff in error. No brief has been filed as required by rule 7 of this court (38 Okla. x), and no excuse offered by plaintiff in error for not having complied with such rule. It has been many times decided by this court under such condition that the appeal will be presumed to have been abandoned, and should be dismissed. Conness v. Brown, 44 Okla. 137, 143 Pac. 852.

For the reasons above suggested, the appeal is dismissed.

By the Court: It is so ordered.