CITY OF ADA v. OKLAHOMA GAS & ELEC. CO.

CITY OF ADA v. OKLAHOMA GAS & ELEC. CO.
1929 OK 531
282 P. 1096
140 Okla. 254
Case Number: 17340
Decided: 12/10/1929
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

CITY OF ADA
v.
OKLAHOMA GAS & ELEC. CO.

Syllabus

¶0 Appeal and Error--Reversal Where no Answer Brief Filed.
"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 et al., 122 Okla. 233, 253 P. 481.

Appeal by the City of Ada from an order and judgment of the Corporation Commission granting the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company revocable permit under the provision of chapter 102, Session Laws 1925. Reversed and remanded.

U. G. Winn, W. J. Otjen, Chalmers B. Wilson, Wash Hudson, and L. L. Cowley, for plaintiff in error.

PER CURIAM.