Opinion
No. 21173
Opinion Filed October 21, 1930.
(Syllabus.)
Appeal and Error — Review — Reversal Where no Answer Brief.
Where plaintiff in error has served and filed its brief in compliance with the rules of this court, and the defendant in error has neither filed a brief nor offered any excuse for his failure to do so, this court is not required to search the record to find some theory upon which the judgment of the trial court may be sustained, but may, where the authorities cited in the brief filed, appear reasonably to sustain the assignments of error, reverse the cause, with directions, in accordance with the prayer of the petition in error.
Error from District Court, Oklahoma County; Wyley Jones, Judge.
Action by J.W. Eisiminger against James E. Kelly. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error. Reversed and remanded, with directions.
W.F. Parker, for plaintiff in error.
J.T. Dickerson, for defendant in error.
This appeal is from the judgment of the district court of Oklahoma county. The plaintiff in error was plaintiff below. The plaintiff in error in due time served and filed his brief in full compliance with the rules of this court, but the defendant in error has wholly failed to file any brief, pleading, or to otherwise appear in this court on the merits of the cause, nor has he offered any excuse for his failure to do so.
"Where plaintiff in error has served and filed its brief in compliance with the rules of this court, and the defendant in error has neither filed a brief nor offered any excuse for his failure to do so, this court is not required to search the record to find some theory upon which the judgment of the trial court may be sustained, but may, where the authorities cited in the brief filed, appear reasonably to sustain the assignments of error, reverse the cause, with directions, in accordance with the prayer of the petition in error." City National Bank v. Coatney, 122 Okla. 233, 253 P. 481.
In this case the petition in error prays that the judgment be reversed, directing the court below to vacate its former judgment and enter judgment for plaintiff in error, and we find, upon examination of the authorities cited by the plaintiff in error, they reasonably support the contention of the plaintiff, and we therefore reverse the judgment of the lower court and direct it to vacate its former judgment and enter judgment in favor of the plaintiff in error.