Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1934

Advance-Rumely Thresher Co. v. Peters

Advance-Rumely Thresher Co. v. Peters
Supreme Court of Oklahoma · Decided May 8, 1934 · PER CURIAM.
32 P.2d 718; 168 Okla. 243; 1934 OK 274; 1934 Okla. LEXIS 140 (Pacific Reporter, Second Series)

Advance-Rumely Thresher Co. v. Peters

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

A judgment was rendered in the court below for the plaintiff upon a petition for breach of warranty. On the 9th day of January, 1933, plaintiff in error filed its appeal herein by petition in error and case-made attached, and on the 10th day of October, 1933, filed a brief. The defendant in error has failed to file brief and has offered no excuse for such failure. This court has repeatedly held that, under such circumstances, it is not the duty of the court to search the record to find some theory upon which the judgment of the trial court may be sustained, but it may, where *244 the authorities cited in the brief filed appear reasonably to sustain the assignments of error, reverse the cause in accordance with the prayer of the petition in error. Chapman v. Taylor, 163 Okla. 274, 21 P. (2d) 1058; Moore v. Jefferson, 164 Okla. 270, 23 P. (2d) 693.

The cause is therefore reversed and remanded, with directions to vacate the order and judgment heretofore entered for the plaintiff and to enter judgment for -the. defendant.

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