In re ONE OVERLAND ROADSTER AUTO. v. STATE

In re ONE OVERLAND ROADSTER AUTO. v. STATE
1921 OK 262
200 P. 145
82 Okla. 203
Case Number: 10283
Decided: 07/05/1921
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

In re SEIZURE OF ONE OVERLAND ROADSTER AUTOMOBILE, MODEL 90-R, SERIAL NO. 84409, USED IN VIOLATION OF THE PROHIBITORY LIQUOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA (MORGAN BROTHERS and MARY E. SHUEY, Interpleaders)
v.
STATE.

Syllabus

¶0 Appeal and Error--Failure to File Brief--Dismissal. When a case is pending in this court and is set for hearing on the regular printed docket and the plaintiff in error fails to file brief in compliance with rule No. 7 of this court (47 Okla. vi), under said rule this court may exercise its discretion and dismiss the appeal for failure to file brief.

Goldesberry & Boone, for plaintiffs in error.
Mack R. Shanks, for defendant in error.

MILLER, J.

¶1 This action was commenced in the county court of Rogers county by petition and return signed and filed by Mack R. Shanks, county attorney, and sworn to by O. W. Payne, deputy sheriff of Rogers county, Oklahoma, showing that on the 17th day of March, 1918, in Rogers county, he arrested one W. L. Reed and Mrs. W. L. Reed, who were then and there conveying 72 quarts of intoxicating liquor, commonly called whisky, from one place within the state of Oklahoma to another place within the state of Oklahoma, each of which places was definitely and specifically described. That the said 72 quarts of intoxicating liquors were being conveyed in the Overland Roadster automobile, described in the title hereto. That said car was being used in violation of the prohibitory liquor laws of the state of Oklahoma. The prayer of said petition was that it be set down for hearing to determine whether or not said automobile was being used in violation of the prohibitory liquor laws of the state of Oklahoma and should be forfeited to the state of Oklahoma. To this petition O. Morgan, F. Morgan, and J. E. Morgan, doing business under the firm name Morgan Brothers, of Cleveland, Pawnee county, Oklahoma, filed an interplea. They claimed an interest in the automobile as mortgagees. Mrs. Mary E. Shuey filed a separate interplea, claiming to be the owner of said automobile. Issues were joined and the case tried to the court, which resulted in a judgment forfeiting the Overland Roadster automobile to the state of Oklahoma. From this judgment, the interpleaders, Morgan Brothers and Mrs. Mary E. Shuey, appealed and appear here as plaintiffs in error. This case was regularly assigned for submission on June 21, 1921, on the printed docket of this court. The plaintiffs in error have not filed a brief. They have not made any showing why they have failed to comply with rule No. 7 of this court (47 Okla. vi.). In re Seizure of One Chevrolet Baby Grand Automobile, Five Passenger, etc., v. State, No. 10282, this day handed down. 82 Okla. 202, 200 P. 144. This appeal is hereby dismissed because of the failure of plaintiffs in error to file brief. Appeal dismissed.