LANGLEY v. GODDARD

LANGLEY v. GODDARD
1931 OK 343
300 P. 386
149 Okla. 295
Case Number: 20988
Decided: 06/16/1931
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

LANGLEY
v.
GODDARD et al.

Syllabus

¶0 Appeal and Error--Reversal Where no Answer Brief.
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.

Error from District Court, Wagoner County; W. J. Crump, Judge.

Action by L. M. Langley against J. A. Goddard et al. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. Reversed and remanded.

Twyford & Smith, G. D. Gibbs, and Leo G. Mann, for plaintiff in error.
W. W. Calhoun and Roy Harris, for defendants in error.

PER CURIAM.

¶1 This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court of Wagoner county in an action wherein plaintiff in error was plaintiff. Plaintiff in error in due time served and filed their brief in full compliance with the rules of this court, but the defendants in error have wholly failed to file any brief, 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.