Case Name: ELLIOTT v. JENKINS
Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1924-12-02
Citations: 107 Okla. 134
Docket Number: No. 15792
Parties: ELLIOTT v. JENKINS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Reports
Volume: 107
Pages: 134–134

Head Matter:
ELLIOTT v. JENKINS.
No. 15792
Opinion Filed Dec. 2, 1924.
Error from District Court, Creek County; Hal Johnson, Assigned Judge.
Action by AVm. M. Jenkins' against Maude C. Elliott. Judgment for defendant, motion for new trial sustained, and defendant brings error.
Dismissed.
Thompson & Smith, for plaintiff in error.
Walker & Lee and Albertson & Bleak-more, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This appeal is from an order of the trial court setting aside the verdict of- the- jury in favor of defendant, plaintiff in error here, in an election contest.
The motion for new trial set out a number of grounds, but the order of the court, sustaining the motion does not state the grounds upon which new trial was granted. A number' of errors are assigned by defendant in the petition in error, all of which relate to the proposition that the verdict is sustained by the record in the case. In Conservative Loan Co. v. Salsbury, 75 Okla. 194, 182 Pac. 685, it is held:
"The discretion of the trial court in granting a new trial is so broad that its action in so doing will not be disturbed on appeal unless the record shows clearly that the court has erred in its view of some pure and unmixed question of law, and that the order granting a new trial is based upon such erroneous view of the law."
Prom an examination of the order granting a new trial, we are unable to tell upon what grounds the court based its judgment in vacating the verdict and granting a new trial. Therefore, we cannot say the court erred with respect to some pure, simple, and unmixed question of law in ordering a new trial.
Por the reasons stated, the motion to dismiss is sustained and the appeal dismissed upon authority of Conservative Loan Co. v. Salsbury, supra.