MISSOURI O. & G. RY. CO. v. JOHNSON

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MISSOURI O. & G. RY. CO. v. JOHNSON
1912 OK 643
127 P. 386
34 Okla. 816
Case Number: 2187
Decided: 10/15/1912
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

MISSOURI, O. & G. RY. CO.
v.
JOHNSON.

Syllabus

¶0 APPEAL AND ERROR--Failure to File Briefs--Dismissal. Where plaintiff in error fails to comply with the rules of this court, requiring it to serve a brief on counsel for defendant in error and at the same time to file fifteen copies of its brief with the clerk of the court, its case, on being reached for submission, will be dismissed.

Edward R. Jones, Duke Stone, and Leslie Maxey, for plaintiff in error.
Crawford & Bolen, for defendant in error.

SHARP, C.

¶1 The petition in error in this case was filed in this court on December 16, 1910. Plaintiff in error has filed no brief. On January 24, 1911, by written stipulation, the time for filing brief was extended for 90 days therefrom. No brief, however, has at any time been filed, and upon authority of Douglas v. Clayton Townsite Co., 29 Okla. 9, 115 P. 1016, and the cases therein cited, the appeal should be dismissed.

¶2 By the Court: It is so ordered.

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