Case Name: Grand Lodge A. O. U. W. v. Hobbie et al.
Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1909-03-12
Citations: 23 Okla. 479
Docket Number: No. 2227
Parties: Grand Lodge A. O. U. W. v. Hobbie et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Reports
Volume: 23
Pages: 479–480

Head Matter:
Grand Lodge A. O. U. W. v. Hobbie et al.
No. 2227,
Okla. T.
Opinion Filed March 12, 1909.
(100 Pac. 540.)
APPEAL AND ERROR — Dismissal—Grounds—Failure of Court to Agree. Where a majority of the Supreme Court cannot agree upon a question before the court for determination within six months after the submission of said cause, the same should be dismissed.
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Error from District Court, Pottawatomie County; B. F. Burwell, Judge.
Action between tbe Grand Lodge Ancient Order of United Workmen of Oklahoma and Gertrnde Hobbie and Mabel Hobbie, by next friend. From the judgment, the Grand Lodge brings erroT.
Dismissed.
M. D. Lilly, for plaintiff in error.
Cowgill & Dunn and Blaheney & Maxey, for defendants in error.

Opinion:
Pee CueiaM.
It is provided by section 3, art. 7, of the Constitution (Bunn's Ed. § 171), that:
"A majority of the members of the Supreme Court shall constitute a quorum, and the concurrence of the majority of said court shall be necessary to decide any question."
In the above-styled cause two of the members of the court are of the opinion that the judgment of the court below ought to be affirmed, two are of the opinion that it ought to be reversed, and one is disqualified from sitting by reason of being counsel for one of the parties in the court below. A part of section 5 of the same article provides that:
"The Supreme Court shall render a written opinion in each case within six months after said case shall have been submitted for decision."
As the time for handing down an opinion in this case has practically expired, and the court stands as above stated, there seems to be no alternative bnt to dismiss the appeal.
It is therefore ordered that the appeal in the above-styled cause shall be dismissed.