Opinion

Smith v. Boatman

  • 29 Okla. 818
  • 120 P. 599
  • 1911 OK 432
  • 1911 Okla. LEXIS 394
Court
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Filed
Nov 14, 1911
Status
Published
Author
Dunn
On the bench
Dunn
Cited by
5 cases
Authority
More cited than 89.9%

The opinion

DUNN, J.

This case presents error from the district court of Greer county. Since the plaintiff in error has filed his appeal in this court the controversy'involved appears to have been fully settled, as is shown by a certified copy of the deed to the land involved. A motion on the part of the defendant in error to dismiss the appeal setting forth 'the foregoing ground was served on counsel for plaintiff in error on September 11, 1911, and to this time there has ’ been made no answer or counter-showing. The controversy having thus been determined, the rule announced

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in the case of

Price et al. v. Board of Com’rs of Pawnee County et al.,

8 Okla. 121 , 56 Pac. 959 , is applicable: •

“Where all of the.parties .to an action pending in the Supreme Court on appeal from an inferior court, before the questions presented by the appeal are determined by the appellate court, compromise and settle all of the matters involved therein, and such fact is' made to appear to the Supreme Court by affidavits and certified copies of official records, all of which are undisputed by the appellant, the appeal will be dismissed.”

' The proceeding is accordingly dismissed at the cost of plaintiff in error.

All the Justices concur. .

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