MORRIS v. CAULK.

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MORRIS v. CAULK.
1914 OK 601
144 P. 623
44 Okla. 342
Case Number: 3755
Decided: 12/01/1914
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

MORRIS
v.
CAULK.

Syllabus

¶0 1. APPEAL AND ERROR--Presentation for Review--New Trial. Where the record contains no order of court overruling the motion for new trial, and matters occurring at the trial are the only points urged in the assignments of error, there is nothing properly before this court for review.
2. APPEAL AND ERROR--Case-Made--Dismissal. Where a case-made is not served within the three days allowed by law, and contains no order of court, made within the three days, and filed with the clerk, allowing an extension of time, the court is without jurisdiction, and the appeal will be dismissed.

Dyke Ballinger, for plaintiff in error.
A. J. Morris, for defendant in error.

BREWER, C.

¶1 The defendant in error in the above styled cause filed in this court on October 28, 1914, a motion to dismiss the appeal, alleging three specific reasons therefor, among them the following:

"Second. The case-made does not contain an order overruling the motion for new trial.

"Third. The case-made was not served within three days after the motion for new trial purports to have been overruled, and contains no order extending the time to make and serve a case-made beyond the statutory three days, and this court has no jurisdiction to review the errors alleged."

¶2 We have examined the record before us, and believe that both points are well taken. On the first point mentioned, while it is true that there is a recital in the case-made that the motion for a new trial was in fact overruled and excepted to, yet it appears therein merely as a recital, and there is no order of court exhibited to such effect. On the second point, there is also a recital in the case-made that the court allowed plaintiff in error 90 days to make and serve the case-made, etc., but this is also nothing more than a mere statement, and does not show to be an order of court, or that same was ever entered in the journals, or the order therefor signed and filed with the clerk as required. The appeal should be dismissed. On first point, see Ford v. McIntosh, 22 Okla. 423, 98 P. 341; Olentine v. Powell, 23 Okla. 363, 100 P. 556. On second point, see Nelson v. Pittsburg Mtg. Inv. Co., 43 Okla. 208, 141 P. 1197; Waggoner v. Mounts et al., ante, 143 P. 1196; Springfield F. & M. Ins. Co. v. Gish, Brook & Co., 23 Okla. 824, 102 P. 708; Ellis v. Carr, 25 Okla. 874, 108 P. 1101; Casner v. Smith, 28 Okla. 303, 114 P. 255; Fife v. Cornelous, 35 Okla. 402, 124 P. 957. Also see Mobley v. C., R. I. & P. Ry. Co. post, and a long list of cases cited.

¶3 By the Court: It is so ordered.

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