Goon v. Scott

Decision Date24 November 1914
Docket NumberCase Number: 3903
Citation44 Okla. 299,1914 OK 580,144 P. 590
PartiesGOON v. SCOTT.
CourtOklahoma Supreme Court
Syllabus

¶0 APPEAL AND ERROR--Dismissal--Death of Plaintiff in Error. Where the plaintiff in error dies after filing petition in error in this court, and more than one year expires subsequent to the date of death, and no attempt has been made to revive the action in the name of the personal representative or the heirs, a motion by the defendant in error to dismiss for failure to revive within the time allowed by statute (section 5294, Rev. Laws 1910) is well taken, and the cause should be dismissed.

Wm. Pfeiffer, for plaintiff in error.

Cruce & Potter, for defendant in error.

GALBRAITH, C.

¶1 The petition in error and case-made in this cause were filed in this court on February 14, 1912. On the 9th day of October, 1914, the defendant in error filed a motion to dismiss the cause for the reason that Chin Goon, the plaintiff in error, died on the 28th day of May, 1913, subsequent to the filing of the petition in error in this court, and more than one year had elapsed since his death and the date of the filing of the motion, and said cause has not been revived in the name of the personal representative or the heirs. Section 5295, Rev. Laws 1910. Proof was made of service of a copy of this motion on one of the sureties on the appeal bond and on Mary Goon, surviving widow of Chin Goon, on the 18th day of October, 1914. No response has been made to this motion. We therefore assume that the fact of the death of the plaintiff in error, as set out in the motion, is true. The record shows that no attempt has been made to revive the cause in the name of the personal representative or the heirs of the plaintiff in error. More than a year having elapsed since his death, the action has abated, and it is now too late to revive the same (sections 5290 and 5294, Rev. Laws 1910), and this court is without jurisdiction to consider the cause upon its merits ( Hester v. Gilbert, 43 Okla. 400, 143 P. 189). The motion to dismiss is, therefore, sustained, and the appeal dismissed.

¶2 By the Court: It is so ordered.

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  • Wormington v. City of Monett
    • United States
    • Missouri Supreme Court
    • July 14, 1947
    ...the merits of the appeal. DeHatre v. Ruenpohl, 341 Mo. 749, 108 S.W.2d 357; Carter v. Burns, 332 Mo. 1128, 61 S.W.2d 933; Chin Goon v. Scott, 44 Okla. 299, 144 P. 590; C.J.S.; Abatement and Revival, sec. 161, p. 213. Under the instant circumstances, it has long been the law of Missouri that......
  • Scott v. Joines
    • United States
    • Oklahoma Supreme Court
    • October 8, 1918
    ...said judgment debtor within the time prescribed by law, which motion was sustained and the proceeding in error dismissed. Chin Goon v. Scott, 44 Okla. 299, 144 P. 590. ¶3 After the mandate of the Supreme Court was received, the county court revived the judgment against Chin Goon, from which......
  • Jackson v. Scott
    • United States
    • Oklahoma Supreme Court
    • May 21, 1918
    ... ... Error from County Court, Carter County; Thos. M. Champion, Judge. Motion by Moran Scott to revive a judgment against Wesley A. Jackson, administrator of Chin Goon, deceased. Motion sustained, and the administrator brings error. Reversed. Thomas Norman, Sigler & Howard, and T. L. Wright, for plaintiff in error.Cruce & Potter, for defendant in error.HOOKER, C.1 On the 30th day of October, 1911, a judgment was rendered in the county court of Carter county in ... ...
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    • United States
    • Oklahoma Supreme Court
    • November 24, 1914

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