Title: ELLIS et al. v. MID-CONTINENT OIL & GAS CO.
Citation: 184 P. 57 3, 1919 OK 295, 76 Okla. 175
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State: Oklahoma
Issuer: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Date: October 14, 1919

ELLIS et al. v. MID-CONTINENT OIL & GAS CO. Annotate this Case ELLIS et al. v. MID-CONTINENT OIL & GAS CO. 1919 OK 295 184 P. 573 76 Okla. 175 Case Number: 5279 Decided: 10/14/1919 Supreme Court of Oklahoma ELLIS et al. v. MID-CONTINENT OIL & GAS CO. Syllabus ¶0 Appeal and Error--Briefs--Necessity for. Where a cause has been regularly assigned for submission and the plaintiff in error fails to file brief or offer any excuse for not doing so, it will be presumed that the appeal has been abandoned and the same will be dismissed (rule 7 of this court). Error from District Court, Muskogee County; R. C. Allen, Judge. Action by Kenneth H. Murchison against the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Company, in which Jeff D. Ellis and another intervened. From the judgment the intervenors bring error. Dismissed. Preston C. West, for plaintiffs in error. Ramsey & Thomas, for defendant in error. PER CURIAM. ¶1 This proceeding in error is brought to review the judgment of the district court of Muskogee county, Oklahoma, in the case where Kenneth H. Murchison was plaintiff and Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Company, a corporation, was defendant, and the Cudahy Refining Company was a garnishee. In said cause plaintiffs in error intervened, claiming the moneys in the hands of the Cudahy Refining Company. a garnishee, which was also claimed by the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Company. Judgment was rendered in favor of the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Company and the intervenors, plaintiffs in error, appealed.