Roof v. Franks

• Decision Date: 10 May 1910
• Docket Number: Case Number: 1125
• Parties: ROOF et al. v. FRANKS.
• Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court

1910 OK 154

110 P. 1098

26 Okla. 392

ROOF et al. v. FRANKS.

Case Number: 1125

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided: May 10, 1910

Syllabus

¶0 APPEAL AND ERROR--Briefs--Sufficiency. Where the brief of plaintiffs in error fails to contain an abstract statement of the facts, and such other matters required by rule 25 (20 Okla. xii, 95 P. viii) "as are necessary to a full understanding of the questions presented to this court for examination, so that no examination of the record itself need be made by this court," and fails to set forth the full substance of the testimony admitted over objection, and the objection thereto, and fails to set out in whole or in part totidem verbis the instructions given and refused and relied on as error, the appeal may be dismissed.

Error from Custer County Court; A. H. Latimer, Judge.

Action by Tom Franks, by his next friend, against G. W. Roof and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error. Dismissed.

G. W. Cornell, for plaintiffs in error.

J. W. Lawter, for defendant in error.

TURNER, J.

¶1 On September 21, 1908, Tom Franks, a minor, by his next friend, defendant in error, plaintiff below, sued G. W. Roof, J. J. Roof, and the First National Bank of Weatherford before a justice of the peace in that city and later on trial anew in the county court recovered a judgment of $ 78 and cost. The amended bill of particulars substantially states that in the spring of that year he leased of G. W. and J. J. Roof 50 acres of land and planted a crop of cotton thereon; that they were to and did furnish said land and the teams, feed, and seed necessary to raise the crop, which he was to plant and cultivate and give one-half; that about June 1st. said defendants caused said crop to be insured against damage by hail, the policy being made payable to plaintiff and said defendants jointly as their interests might appear; that they executed a joint note for the premium; that said crop was later damaged by hail, for which they received net $ 156, evidenced by draft made payable by the insurance company to plaintiff and said defendants; that defendant G. W. Roof without plaintiff's consent or authority so to do indorsed said draft to defendant the First National Bank of Weatherford, which, in turn, indorsed it, and together said defendants secured the money thereon and refused to pay him his share thereof on demand. For answer defendants, after general denial, pleaded that said land was Indian land, and for that reason they had no authority to lease it to plaintiff, and no right to insure said crop, nor any right to collect said insurance, as said lease had never been approved by the Indian agent and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior, as required by law. After the suit had been dismissed as to J. J. Roof, there was trial to a jury which resulted in a verdict for plaintiff. After motion for a new trial filed and overruled defendants G. W. Roof and the First National Bank...