Title: TAKE v. POWELL
Citation: 138 Okla. 244, 1929 OK 377, 280 P. 81 1
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State: Oklahoma
Issuer: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Date: September 24, 1929

TAKE v. POWELL Annotate this Case TAKE v. POWELL 1929 OK 377 280 P. 811 138 Okla. 244 Case Number: 19468 Decided: 09/24/1929 Supreme Court of Oklahoma TAKE et al. v. POWELL. Syllabus ¶0 1. Appeal and Error--Reversal Where No Answer Brief Filed. Where plaintiff in error has served and filed its brief in compliance with the rules of this court, and the defendant in error has neither filed a brief nor offered any excuse for his failure to do so, this court is not required to search the record to find some theory upon which the judgment of the trial court may be sustained, but may, where the authorities cited in the brief filed, appear reasonably to sustain the assignments of error, reverse the cause, with directions in accordance with the prayer of the petition in error. 2. Same--Remand for New Trial Where Record of Evidence Defective. Where the petition in error prays this court to render such judgment as should have been rendered in the trial court, and the record presented to this court, by reason of partial destruction of reporter's notes, does not contain all the evidence in the trial of the cause, this court will remand the cause to the trial court for a new trial. Error from District Court, Cherokee County; E. A. Summers, Assigned Judge. In the matter of the guardianship of Louise and William Take, minors. From judgment surcharging former guardian, J. T. Powell in certain amounts, the present guardian, A. T. Edmondson, appeals. Reversed and remanded, with directions. W. H. Kisner, W. E. Foltz, O. B. Martin, Allen & Jarman, and B. C. Logsdon, for plaintiffs in error. Vance & Bliss and Ames, Cochran & Ames, for defendant in error. PER CURIAM. ¶1 This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court of Cherokee county in an action appealed from the county court of said county and wherein J. T. Powell, a former guardian of Louise Take and William Take was surcharged in certain sums for which he claimed credit in his final report as such guardian, and from which judgment A. T. Edmondson, as a present guardian, appeals. ¶2 The plaintiffs in error in due time served and filed their brief in full compliance with the rules of this court, but the defendant in error has wholly failed to file any brief, pleading, or otherwise appear in this court in this cause on appeal, nor has he offered any excuse for his failure to do so. Under this condition of the case, this court is not required to search the record to find some theory upon which the judgment of the trial court may be sustained, but may, where the plaintiff in error files brief and cites authorities therein which reasonably support and sustain the assignments of error, reverse the judgment of the lower court in accordance with the prayer of the petition in error. City National Bank v. Coatney et al., 122 Okla. 233 , 253 P. 481.