LYTLE v. ROBERTS

LYTLE v. ROBERTS
1915 OK 582
151 P. 191
50 Okla. 565
Case Number: 4957
Decided: 08/03/1915
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

LYTLE
v.
ROBERTS et al.

Syllabus

¶0 APPEAL AND ERROR--Briefs--Failure to File--Effect. Where plaintiff in error has completed his record and filed it in this court, and has served and filed a brief in compliance with the rules of this court, and 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 may be sustained; and, where the brief filed appears reasonably to sustain the assignments of error, the court may reverse the judgment in accordance with the prayer of the petition of plaintiff in error.

Error from District Court, Logan County; A. H. Huston, Judge.

Action by L. O. Lytle against A. B. Roberts, administrator, and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error. Reversed and remanded.

McDougal & Lytle, for plaintiff in error.

DUDLEY, C.

¶1 This is an appeal from the district court of Logan county. There was judgment for defendants in error, from which plaintiff in error has properly perfected an appeal to this court. He has served and filed a brief in compliance with the rules of this court. Defendants in error have neither filed a brief nor offered any excuse for their failure to do so. We have examined the record, and the brief appears reasonably to sustain the assignments of error, and under the numerous authorities of this court, it is not required to search the record to find some theory upon which the judgment may be sustained, but may reverse the judgment in accordance with the prayer of the petition of plaintiff in error. Phillips v. Rogers, 30 Okla. 99, 118 P. 371.

¶2 By the Court: It is so ordered.