Case ID: okla_113/html/0077-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MENDELSON et al. v. ZILAR, Co. Assessor.
    No. 16138
    Opinion Filed July 14 1925.
    (Syllabus.)
    Appeal and Error — Dismissal-—Failure to Revive Cause.
    Where the term of office of a county assessor expires after a judgment in his favor in the trial court, but before case-made is settled and signed, and the case is not revived in that court against his successor, the appeal will be dismissed.
    Error from District Court, Ottawa County; J. J. Smith, Judge.
    Mandamus by J. C. Mendelson, for himself and for others similarly situated, against Will N. Zilar, County Assessor of Ottawa County. From the judgment, the former brings error.
    Dismissed.
    Frank Nesbitt and W. R. Chesnut, for appellant.
    A. Scott Thompson and Dyke Ballinger, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

This is a mandamus action brought in the district court of Ottawa county., by the plaintiff in error, to compel the defendant in error, county assessor of that county, to transfer on the tax book certain property assessed for taxation in Quapaw township to the incorporated town of Cardin. The writ of mandamus was denied, and plaintiff in error appealed.

Note. — See under (1) 4 O. J. p. 583, '§ 2393a (1926 Anno).

It is contended that the term of office of the defendant in error expired on the 31st day of December, 1924, and there being no revivor against his successor, the action has abated. The ease was tried on the 24th day of December, 1924, and motion for a new trial overruled on the same day. On the 31st day of January, 1925, case-made was settled and signed by the trial judge. The time in which the case might be revived has not expired, but plaintiff in error having had 30 days in which to revive against the successor of defendant in error in the trial court, and not having done so, the appeal is dismissed.