MCGOWEN v. RING

MCGOWEN v. RING
1920 OK 63
187 P. 465
77 Okla. 193
Case Number: 9509
Decided: 02/10/1920
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

MCGOWEN et al.
v.
RING.

Syllabus

¶0 Appeal and Error--Failure to File Brief--Dismissal.
Where cause was submitted in regular order, and plaintiff in error was given extended time in which to file briefs, and no briefs were filed, and no further extension of time requested, the cause will be dismissed for want of prosecution.

Error from District Court, Major County; James B. Cullison, Judge.

Action by Keller Ring against James M. McGowen and Hattie E. MeGowen. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error. Affirmed.

Swindell & Wybrant, for plaintifs in error.
Frank E. Severn, R. M. Chase, and Frank Wells, for defendant in error.

RAINEY, J.

¶1 This cause was submitted in its regular order on December 10, 1919, but was stricken from the assignment and continued until the February term. An order was entered giving plaintiff in error 15 days from that date in which to file brief. No brief having been filed, and no extension of time requested, the cause is dismissed, for want of prosecution. Balch v. Pickard, 72 Okla. 128, 179 P. 10.