CHICAGO R. I. & P. RY. CO. v. STATE

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CHICAGO R. I. & P. RY. CO. v. STATE
1928 OK 64
263 P. 656
129 Okla. 111
Case Number: 17825
Decided: 01/31/1928
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

CHICAGO, R. I. & P. RY. CO.
v.
STATE et al.

Syllabus

¶0 Appeal and Error--Reversal Where no Answer Brief.
The syllabus in the case of City National Bank v. Coatney, 122 Okla. 233, 253 P. 481, is hereby adopted as the syllabus in this case.

From order of Corporation Commission granting to F. D. Gay a permit to operate a motor bus line, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company appeals. Reversed and remanded, with directions.

W. R. Bleakmore, John Barry, and A. T. Boys, for plaintiff in error.
Earl Brown and Robert Kerr, for defendant in error Gay.

PER CURIAM.

¶1 This is an appeal from an order of the Corporation Commission of this state granting to the defendant in error Gay permission to operate a bus line. The plaintiff in error was the objector before the Corporation Commission.

¶2 Plaintiff in error in due time served and filed its brief in full compliance with the rules of this court, but the defendants in error have wholly failed to file any brief or to otherwise appear in this cause in this court, nor have they offered any excuse for their failure to do so.

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