In Re Assessment of Oklahoma Stockyards Nat. Bank

Supreme Court of Oklahoma
In Re Assessment of Oklahoma Stockyards Nat. Bank, 178 P. 485 (Okla. 1919)
72 Okla. 36; 1919 OK 28; 1919 Okla. LEXIS 295
MeNEILL

In Re Assessment of Oklahoma Stockyards Nat. Bank

Opinion of the Court

MeNEILL, J.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court of Oklahoma county, rendered upon ai>peal from an order of the county board of equalization, relative to an assessment of taxes against the Oklahoma Stockyards National Bank. It was sought to have this judgment reviewed by petition in error and case-made. The originals have been lost or misplaced and cannot now be found. The ease-made was substituted. On (he 23d of April, 1918, this court made an order directing that the plaintiff in error substitute a copy of the petition in error within 20' days. Plaintiff in error lias failed to comply with said order, and no reason has been given for not complying with (he same. The plaintiff in error having failed to comply with said order within 20 days, and having given no reason for not complying with the -same, the cause will therefore be dismissed for want of pros-een.ion..

*37 The appeal is therefore dismissed.

All the Justices concur.

Reference

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Syllabus
(Syllabus.) Appeal and Error — Loss of Petition in Error —Substituted Petition — Dismissal. Where the petition in error has become lost or mislaid, and the court makes an order directing that the plaintiff in error substitute said petition in error within 20 days, and the plaintiff in error fails (o comply wth said order, and offers no reason for not complying with the same, said canse will he dismissed for want of prosecution.