Title: STATE ex rel. UNION STATE BANK OF SHAWNEE v. LINN
Citation: 176 P. 22 4, 1918 OK 637, 71 Okla. 177
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State: Oklahoma
Issuer: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Date: November 19, 1918

STATE ex rel. UNION STATE BANK OF SHAWNEE v. LINN Annotate this Case STATE ex rel. UNION STATE BANK OF SHAWNEE v. LINN 1918 OK 637 176 P. 224 71 Okla. 177 Case Number: 9635 Decided: 11/19/1918 Supreme Court of Oklahoma STATE ex rel. UNION STATE BANK OF SHAWNEE et al. v. LINN, District Judge. Syllabus ¶0 Courts--Original Action in Supreme Court--Failure to File Briefs--Dismissal. Where the relators in an original action in this court fail to file briefs in compliance with the rules governing same, the cause will be dismissed. Original mandamus by State of Oklahoma, on relation of the Union State Bank of Shawnee and others, against Conn Linn. Judge of the District Court of Tulsa County, Okla. Dismissed. Aby & Tucker and Abernathy & Howell, for relators. W. N. Redwine and Horace Speed, for respondent. SHARP, C. J. ¶1 On December 11, 1917, relators filed in this court their original petition asking that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue requiring Hon. Conn Linn. judge of the district court of the Twenty-First judicial district, to certify his disqualification to sit as a trial judge in the case of C. C. Mueller and others, plaintiffs, against the Arkansas River Bed Oil & Gas Company and others, defendants, then pending in the district court of Tulsa county. On the 15th day of December following, motion to strike the petition was filed. The case was regularly assigned for submission on April 9, 1918, on which day the relators filed their motion to dismiss the case at their costs. On the same day and on call of the docket, the case was submitted. On April 11th thereafter relators were granted leave to withdraw their motion to dismiss. No briefs have ever been filed, though the cause has been submitted more than seven months.