Oaks v. Samples

Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Oaks v. Samples, 157 P. 739 (Okla. 1916)
57 Okla. 660; 1916 OK 534; 1916 Okla. LEXIS 566
Mathews

Oaks v. Samples

Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

MATHEWS, C.

This was an. action for a balance claimed to be due upon a real estate transaction. Judgment was for defendant in error. The only question presented by the plaintiff in error is that the verdict is. not sustained by the evidence.

It appears from the record that the plaintiff in error in no way challenged the sufficiency of the evidence to-support a verdict in favor of defendant in error until after the verdict was rendered. It came too late then to save the point now presented. It has been frequently and uniformly held by this court that, if the plaintiff in error does not, in some authorized Way, challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support a verdict against him duringthe trial and permits the case to go to the jury unchallenged, then nothing is saved to present to this court. Muskogee Electric Traction Co. v. Reed, 35 Okla. 334, 130 Pac. 157; Reed v. Scott, 50 Okla. 757, 151 Pac. 484; Haizlip v. Whitfield, ante, p. 42, 155 Pac. 863.

We recommend that the judgment be affirmed.

By the Court: It is so ordered.

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Syllabus
1. APPEAL AND ERROR — Presenting- Questions in Trial Court— Sufficiency of Evidence — Motion for Direction of Verdict. In the absence of a motion for a directed verdict, the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict is not presented to this court on appeal. 2. APPEAL AND ERROR — Review—Questions of Fact. If there is .any evidence, including every reasonable inference the jury could have drawn from the same, reasonably tending to support the verdict, this court will not reverse a case for insufficient evidence. ' (Syllabus by Mathews, C.)