HILL v. FORREST

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HILL v. FORREST
1915 OK 675
151 P. 1038
51 Okla. 273
Case Number: 5353
Decided: 09/21/1915
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

HILL
v.
FORREST.

Syllabus

¶0 APPEAL AND ERROR--Failure to File Brief--Dismissal. Where plaintiff in error files no brief, and assigns no reason for failure to do so, the appeal will be considered as abandoned, and under rule 7 of this court (38 Okla. vi. 137 P. ix) dismissed.

Error from County Court, Muskogee County; Thomas W. Leahy, Judge.

Action by Fred Forrest, trading as the Forrest Hardware Company, against J. B. Hill. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. Dismissed.

J. H. Lilley, for plaintiff in error.

BRETT, C.

¶1 This appeal is perfected from the county court of Muskogee county, in an action wherein Fred Forrest, trading as the Forrest Hardware Company, obtained judgment against J. B. Hill, from which judgment the said Hill appeals. The appeal was filed in this court July 16, 1913, and was duly submitted on the record September 13, 1915. Plaintiff in error has filed no brief, and has not asked for additional time, nor assigned any reason for his failure to file brief.

¶2 The appeal, therefore, will be considered as abandoned by the plaintiff in error, and the appeal should be dismissed.

¶3 By the Court: It is so ordered.

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