Case Name: WAHL v. WHITE SEWING MACH. CO.
Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1915-03-16
Citations: 45 Okla. 805
Docket Number: No. 6119
Parties: WAHL v. WHITE SEWING MACH. CO.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Oklahoma Reports
Volume: 45
Pages: 805–806

Head Matter:
WAHL v. WHITE SEWING MACH. CO.
No. 6119.
Opinion Filed March 16, 1915.
(147 Pac. 301.)
APPEAL AND ERROR — Time for Perfecting Appeal — Dismissal. Where no praecipe for summons in error is filed, or summons issued or waiver of issuance and service of summons, or a general appearance made within six months after the rendition of the judgment complained of the proceeding will not be deemed' commenced as required by Sess. Laws 1910-11, c. 18, p. 35, and.on motion the appeal will be dismissed.
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Error from, County Court Major County; F. W. Madison, Judge.
Action between G. A. Wahl and the White Sewing Machine Company, a corporation. From the judgment, Wahl brings error.
Dismissed.
John 7. Roberts -and Chambers' & Priest for plaintiff in error.
Beeman Eirlcendalt for defendant in error.

Opinion:
TURNER, J.
The final order appealed from in tliis case was made on September 5, 1913. The petition in error was filed in this court on Friday, March 6, 1914. Praecipe was filed, and summons in error was issued on April 21, 1914, and returned, showing service April 24, 1914. Thereafter defendant in error filed his motion to dismiss, alleging as grounds therefor that the proceedings in error were not commenced within the statutory period of six months from the date of the rendition of the judgment complained of. The motion to dismiss was overruled, and on February 3, 1915, defendant in error files his second motion to dismiss. It appears that this court erred in refusing fo dismiss the appeal in the first instance for the reason that the record affirmatively shows that the plaintiff in error was one day late in filing his petition in error, but the appeal should also be dismissed on another ground. The summons in error was not issued or served within the statutory period. The general rule is that summons in error must. be issued and served within the statutory period of six months provided for perfecting appeals. There is a. well-defined exception to this rule, namely, that where summons in error has been issued within the six-month period, but service has not been obtained, the plaintiff in error may have 60 days from the issuance of the first summons in which to faithfully, properly, and diligently follow up- his -attempt to secure service. The ease at bar does not come within this exception, for here no- praecipe was filed or summons issued within the six-month period. We, therefore, must conclude that plaintiff in this action did not commence his proceeding within the statutory period. School Dist. No. 39, etc., v. Fisher, Treas., 23 Okla. 9, 99 Pac. 646; Durant v. Munford, 38 Okla. 552, 134 Pac. 50; Watkins v. Barnwell, 35 Okla. 205, 128 Pac. 511; Campbell v. Ruble, 40 Okla. 48, 135 Pac. 1050.
Dismissed.
All the Justices concur.