MUSKOGEE COUNTY EXCISE BD. v. KURN

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MUSKOGEE COUNTY EXCISE BD. v. KURN
1943 OK 268
140 P.2d 597
192 Okla. 701
Case Number: 31422
Decided: 08/03/1943
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

MUSKOGEE COUNTY EXCISE BOARD
v.
KURN et al.

Syllabus

¶0 TAXATION--Appeal from Court of Tax Review--Dismissal of appeal where petition in error not filed within ten days after notice of filing transcript.
That portion of Initiative Act No. 100 (68 O. S. 1941 § 337) requiring the party appealing to file in said cause with the Clerk of the Supreme Court a petition in error within ten days after the filing of the transcript on appeal means ten days after notice of the filing of the transcript on appeal and is mandatory, and, where the same is not complied with, the appeal will be dismissed by this court upon its attention being called thereto.

Appeal from Court of Tax Review; Marvin Shilling, James T. Shipman, and Clarence Mills, Judges.

Proceeding by Muskogee County Excise Board to review order of the Court of Tax Review in favor of J. M. Kurn et al., Trustees of St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company. Dismissed.

Keaton, Wells & Johnston, of Oklahoma City, for plaintiff in error.
Cruce, Satterfield & Grigsby, of Oklahoma City, for defendants in error.

PER CURIAM.

¶1 This is an appeal by Muskogee County Excise Board against J. M. Kurn and John G. Lonsdale, trustees, St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, from an order of the Court of Tax Review entered on the 22nd day of December, 1942. The transcript of the proceeding was filed on May 12, 1943, and due notice of the filing given on the same date.

¶2 The appeal is dismissed on the authority of Harper County, Okla., Excise Board v. Phillips Pipe Line Co., 192 Okla. 700, 140 P.2d 596, this day decided, and the syllabus in that cause is adopted as the syllabus herein.

¶3 All the Justices concur.

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