Case ID: p2d_281/html/0742-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CORN, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Habeas Corpus of Vera Sue WILLIAMS, a Minor. Cora WILLIAMS, Plaintiff in Error, v. Harold Lloyd WILLIAMS and Alice LaDean Williams, Defendants in Error.
    No. 36236.
    Supreme Court of Oklahoma.
    March 29, 1955.
    F. C. Swindell, Raymond Thomas, Tulsa, for plaintiff in error.
    Tom Durham, Tulsa, for defendants in error.
   CORN, Justice.

Plaintiff in error has appealed from a judgment entered against her in the trial court, and on April 19, 1954, she filed her brief. The authorities therein cited reasonably sustain the allegations of error. The defendants in error have filed no brief and have offered no excuse for such failure. Under such circumstances as stated in Osborne v. Osborne, 163 Okl. 273, 274, 21 P.2d 1056, it is not the duty of this court to search the record for some theory upon which to sustain the action of the trial court, but this court may reverse and remand the cause with directions.

The cause is reversed and remanded with directions to vacate the judgment entered for the plaintiffs below and to grant a new trial.

JOHNSON, C. J., WILLIAMS, V. C. J., and WELCH, HALLEY, BLACKBIRD and JACKSON, JJ., concur.