Opinion

Town of Okemah v. Allen

  • 48 Okla. 757
  • 150 P. 669
  • 1915 Okla. LEXIS 698
Court
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Filed
Jul 13, 1915
Status
Published
Author
Watts
On the bench
Watts
Cited by
2 cases
Authority
More cited than 76.9%

The opinion

Opinion by

WATTS, C.

Robert Allen sued the town of Okemah, in the district court of Okfuskee county, to recover alleged damages caused by the eonstructioil of a certain water tower, which was situated in the public street adjacent to the property of the plaintiff. December 13, 1912, the issues of fact were submitted to a jury, which resulted favorably to the plaintiff, and defendant

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appeals, alleging as error: (1) In admitting certain evidence of the plaintiff; (2) in giving certain instructions to the jury; (3) the verdict of the jury was.iex-cessive, and was unwarranted under competent ¿nd admissible testimony submitted by the plaintiff to sustaiiii his cause of action; (4) in overruling the defendant’s motion for a new trial.

We get from the record that the trial judge on December 13, 1912, signed a journal entry, awarding judgment to the plaintiff, and on January 8, 1913, signed a journal entry denying the motion for a new trial, and gave time to make and serve case-made, etc., and within the time, and on February 15, 1915, signed a journal entry, extending the time to make and serve the case, but none of these journal entries mentioned, especially the latter, appear to ha,ve been filed with the clerk of the court, or ever became a part of the record in this case. Therefore we are powerless to give the alleged errors further consideration.

In

Walker v. Board of County Commissioners of Grant County,

44 Okla. 350 , 144 Pac. 793 , Harrison, C., said:

“These questions, however, are not properly presented here, for the reason that it appears from the case-made that neither the original petition, answer, agreed statement of facts, nor journal entry of judgment, were ever filed with the clerk of the district court. That is, the purported petition, answer, agreed statement of facts, and journal entry presented here bear no copy of filing marks, nor other evidence that their originals were ever filed with the district clerk, * * * and therefore,

under Mobley v. C., R. I. & P. Ry. Co.,

44 Okla. 788 , 145 Pac. 321 , present nothing to this court for decision.”

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See,

also, Morris v. Caulk,

44 Okla. 342 , 144 Pac. 623 .

The appeal is therefore dismissed.

By the Court: It is so ordered.

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