Court Opinion

ID: 3835043
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 08:04:40.872944+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:49:15.366496
License: Public Domain

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court of Logan county, wherein the plaintiff in error was defendant in the trial court and defendant in error was plaintiff. The plaintiff in error in due time served and filed its brief in full compliance with the rules of this court, but the defendant in error has wholly failed to file any brief, pleading, or to otherwise appear in this court in said cause, nor has he offered any excuse for his failure to do so. This court in the case of City National Bank v. Coatney et al., 122 Okla. 233,253 P. 481, laid down the following rule:
"Where plaintiff in error has served and filed its brief in compliance with the rules of this court, and the defendant in error had 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." See, also, Chicago, R.I.  P. Ry. Co. v. Weaver, 67 Okla. 293, 171 P. 34; Lawton National Bank v. Ulrich et al., 81 Okla. 159, 197 P. 167.
In this case the petition in error prays that the judgment of the trial court be reversed, set aside, and held for naught, and that a judgment be rendered in favor of the plaintiff in error, and we find upon examination, the authorities cited by the plaintiff in error appear reasonably to sustain the contentions of plaintiff in error, and we therefore reverse the judgment of the trial court, directing it to vacate its former judgment and enter judgment in favor of the plaintiff in error.