BAUGH v. HUDSON

BAUGH v. HUDSON
1915 OK 941
153 P. 289
54 Okla. 269
Case Number: 5262
Decided: 11/16/1915
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

BAUGH
v.
HUDSON et al.

Syllabus

¶0 1. APPEAL AND ERROR--Presentation Below--Motion for New Trial. A motion for a new trial is necessary to give this court jurisdiction to review errors occurring at the trial of a case, where a final judgment has been rendered.
2. SAME -- Record -- Transcript -- Presentation for Review -- Dismissal. Where, in an application for an injunction pending the action, the court hears evidence and renders a final judgment dismissing the action, and no motion is filed for a new trial, and there is no certificate of the clerk, certifying the record as a transcript, this court has no jurisdiction to consider any of the alleged errors, and the appeal will be dismissed.

Error from District Court, McIntosh County; Presley B. Cole, Judge.

Action by Charles J. Baugh against William H. Hudson and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error. Dismissed.

The cause of action in this case was for the possession of certain land described in the petition. Plaintiff also asked that during the pendency of the action the defendants be restrained from interfering with the peaceable and exclusive possession of the plaintiff, and from developing the same for oil and gas, and that at the final hearing the defendants be enjoined from interfering with the rights of the plaintiff under a certain oil and gas lease set out in the petition. The case was heard upon an application for a preliminary injunction, and much evidence, both oral and by way of affidavit, was introduced. On the hearing of the application, the court rendered judgment refusing the preliminary injunction, refusing the plaintiff any relief, and dismissing the action, which makes it a final judgment. The plaintiff brings the case to this court by petition in error and case-made, but there is no motion for a new trial in the record, nor is it certified to by the clerk, so as to constitute a transcript.

B. B. Blakeney and J. H. Maxey, Jr., for plaintiff in error
William M. Matthews, for defendants in error
Thomas H. Owen and Joseph C. Stone, amici curiae

DEVEREUX, C.

¶1 (after stating the facts as above). The judgment in this case is a final judgment, because it dismisses the action, and there is no motion for a new trial, nor is there any certificate of the clerk which will enable us to review the record as a transcript. There is therefore nothing before this court. Stanard v. Sampson, 23 Okla. 13, 99 P. 796; Boyd v. Bryan, 11 Okla. 56, 65 P. 940; Bradford v. Brennan, 15 Okla. 47, 78 P. 387; Ahren-Ott Mfg. Co. v. Condon, 23 Okla. 365, 100 P. 556.

¶2 As there is no certificate of the clerk authenticating this as a transcript, this court is without jurisdiction to consider any errors which might appear on the face of the record.

¶3 We therefore recommend that the appeal be dismissed.

¶4 By the Court: It is so ordered.