DURHAM v. BROWN
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DURHAM v. BROWN
1933 OK 396
24 P.2d 295
164 Okla. 139
Case Number: 22267
Decided: 06/20/1933
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
DURHAM
v.
BROWN
Syllabus
¶0 Appeal and Error--Reversal--Failure of Defendant in Error to File
Brief.
Where plaintiff in error has served and filed its brief in compliance
with the rules of court, and the defendant in error has neither filed a brief
nor offered any excuse for his failure to do so, the 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.
Appeal from District Court, Oklahoma County; Lucius Babcock, Judge.
Action by M. E. Durham et al. against Adelbert Brown et al. to recover money Judgment for funds held by the City Audit Company. From a judgment for the defendants, plaintiffs appeal. Reversed and remanded, with directions.
Armstrong & Murphy and Sam Gill, for plaintiffs in error.
A. M. Beets,
D. T. McConnell, Adelbert Brown, and Lewis R. Morris, Co. Atty., for defendants
in error.
OPINION: PER CURIAM.
¶1 On April 7, 1931, plaintiff in error filed case-made with petition in error in this court, and on November 3, 1931, the brief was filed by plaintiff in error.
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