DAWSON v. ARBUTHNOT

DAWSON v. ARBUTHNOT
1921 OK 257
199 P. 218
82 Okla. 194
Case Number: 9859
Decided: 06/28/1921
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

DAWSON
v.
ARBUTHNOT.

Syllabus

¶0 Appeal and Error--Failure to File Brief--Dismissal. When an action is regularly submitted in this court and the plaintiff in error has been granted several extensions of time in which to file brief and has failed to file brief within any of such extensions and no showing is made why the brief has not been filed, and where the record on its face appears to support the judgment of the trial court, the petition in error will be dismissed for failure to file brief.

Hoover, Swindall & Wybrant, for plaintiff in error.
C. B. Leedy and M. B. McKenzie, for defendant in error.

MILLER, J.

¶1 This action was commenced in the district court of Ellis county by J. G. Arbuthnot against Berkley Dawson, to recover $ 1,055.93 as the balance due plaintiff under a rental contract by which the plaintiff leased to the defendant certain lands. The case was tried to jury on October 5, 1917, which resulted in a verdict in favor of Arbuthnot in the sum of $ 459.01. Judgment was rendered on this verdict. The defendant filed his motion for a new trial, which was overruled, saved his exceptions, perfected this appeal, and appears here as plaintiff in error. This case was duly submitted, and after several extensions of time have been given plaintiff in error to file brief, no brief has been filed. We do not know what particular grounds the plaintiff in error would urge as a reason for reversing the judgment of the trial court. We have examined the record, and do not find any reversible error appearing on the face of the record. We think there was sufficient evidence to take the case to the jury. In the absence of a brief filed by plaintiff in error pointing out any reversible errors, when no good reason is shown why a brief has not been filed, the appeal will be dismissed. It therefore follows that this appeal is hereby dismissed.