FARRISS v. READER

FARRISS v. READER
1915 OK 1006
153 P. 682
49 Okla. 492
Case Number: 7680
Decided: 12/07/1915
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

FARRISS
v.
READER.

Syllabus

¶0 TITLE TO OFFICE. Reversed and remanded upon the authority of Reader v. Farriss, ante, p. 459, 153 P. 678.

Sharp, J., dissenting.

Error from District Court, McClain County; W. M. Bowles, Assigned Judge.

Action by Frank Farriss against Mark Reader. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error. Reversed and remanded, with directions.

Dorset Carter, for plaintiff in error.
Franklin & Mauldin and P. S. Nagle, for defendant in error.

KANE, C. J.

¶1 This controversy presents the same questions involved in cause No. 7575, Reader v. Farriss, ante, p. 459, 153 P. 678, in which the opinion has just been handed down.

¶2 This was a proceeding instituted by the plaintiff in error in the former case, plaintiff below, who was also dissatisfied with the judgment of the trial court, holding that neither party was entitled to the office of sheriff and declaring the same to be vacant.

¶3 For the reasons stated in the former opinion, the judgment herein is also reversed and remanded, with directions to proceed as directed in the former opinion.

¶4 All the Justices concur, except SHARP, J., who delivers an opinion expressing his views. See, ante, p. 466, 153 P. 680.