SIMMON v. YOUNG

SIMMON v. YOUNG
1919 OK 388
186 P. 941
77 Okla. 203
Case Number: 10027
Decided: 12/23/1919
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

SIMMON
v.
YOUNG.

Syllabus

¶0 Appeal and Error--Frivolous Appeals--Dismissal.
Where upon examination of the record, petition in error, and motion to dismiss it appears that the appeal is manifestly frivolous and without merit, the same will be dismissed.

Rehearing Feb. 12, 1920.

Error from District Court, Muskogee County; R. P. deGraffenreid, Judge.

Action by Tandy C. Young against J. M. Simmon. Judgment for plaintiff for $ 3,000, and defendant brings error. Dismissed.

S. H. Lattimore and Frank R. Applegate, for plaintiff in error.
Gibson & Hull, for defendant in error.

OWEN, C. J.

¶1 Tandy C. Young brought this action against J. M. Simmon, alleging, in substance, that Simmon employed him to sell an undivided interest in an oil lease for $ 5,000 net to Simmon, and in pursuance of this employment he procured a purchaser within the time mentioned, who was ready, willing, and able to purchase the interest, paying therefor the sum of $ 8,000, $ 3,000 of which amount was to be paid to Young as his commission, but Simmon failed and refused to accept the offer, and thereby became indebted to Young in the sum of $ 3,000. Simmon answered by way of general denial, alleging also that he had canceled the employment prior to the performance by Young. The case was tried to the court, without a jury; judgment rendered for Young in the sum of $ 3,000; from this judgment Simmon appeals.

¶2 Defendant in error filed a motion to dismiss the appeal for the reason the same is frivolous and brought for the purpose of delay only. To this motion no response has been made.

¶3 From an examination of the entire record, it appears no other judgment could have been rendered, and that the appeal is clearly frivolous, and it will, therefore, be dismissed. Greenless v. Beckett, 49 Okla. 135, 152 P. 349; Skirvin v. Goldstein, 40 Okla. 315, 137 P. 1176.