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Schwabacher v. Eustice

Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Sep 24, 1929
280 P. 821 (Okla. 1929)

Opinion

No. 19195

Opinion Filed September 24, 1929.

(Syllabus.)

Appeal and Error — Reversal Where No Answer Brief Filed.

The syllabus in the case of City National Bank v. Coatney et al., 122 Okla. 233, 253 P. 481, is hereby adopted as the syllabus in this case.

Error from District Court, Garvin County; W. G. Long, Judge.

Action by L. H. Schwabacher against E. P. Eustice et al. From the judgment, plaintiff appeals. Reversed.

Alvin F. Pyeatt and W. R. Withington, for plaintiff in error.


This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court of Garvin county in an action wherein the plaintiff in error was plaintiff below. The plaintiff in error in due time served and filed his brief in full compliance with the rules of this court, but the defendants in error have wholly failed to file any brief, pleading, or to otherwise appear in this court on the merits of the cause, nor have they offered any excuse for their failure to do so.

"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."

In this case the petition in error prays that the judgment rendered in the trial court be reversed, set aside, and held for naught and that judgment be rendered for the plaintiff in error and against the defendants in error, and we find, upon examination of the authorities cited by the plaintiff in error, that they reasonably support the contention of the plaintiff, and we therefore reverse the judgment of the lower court and direct it to vacate its former judgment and enter judgment in favor of the plaintiff in error in accordance with the prayer of his petition.


Summaries of

Schwabacher v. Eustice

Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Sep 24, 1929
280 P. 821 (Okla. 1929)
Case details for

Schwabacher v. Eustice

Case Details

Full title:SCHWABACHER v. EUSTICE et al

Court:Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Date published: Sep 24, 1929

Citations

280 P. 821 (Okla. 1929)
280 P. 821