City of Lawton v. Burnett , 72 Okla. 205 ( 1919 )

This action was filed by Tom Burnett, plaintiff below, in the district court of Comanche county, Okla., against the city of Lawton, a municipal corporation, B.C. Koger, and John Langwell, defendants below, for damages. The issues were joined and a trial was thereafter had on the 7th day of February, 1916, before a jury, which returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendants City of Lawton and B.C. Kroeger in the sum of $500, and also returned a verdict against the plaintiff and in favor of the defendant John Langwell. Judgment was entered on said verdict accordingly.

The defendant in error has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal on the following ground:

"That all the parties to the joint judgment in this cause are not made parties to this proceeding in error, in that the action in the court below was brought by the defendant in error, Tom Burnett, against the city of Lawton, B.C. Koger, and that the said John Langwell recovered a judgment against the defendant in error, and said John Langwell is not a party to this appeal, such facts appearing upon the face of the record at pages 295, 304-308."

The motion is well taken, and must be sustained on the authority of the following cases: Chicago, R.I. P. Ry. Co. v. Austin, 63 Okla. 169, 163 P. 517, L. R. A. 1917D, 666; Chickasha Light, Heat Power Co. v. Bezdicheck, 33 Okla. 688126 P. 821; Humphrey et al. v. Hunt, 9 Okla. 196,59 P. 971; Board of Com'rs et al. v. Lemley, 23 Okla. 306,101 P. 109; K. C., M. O. Ry. Co. v. Williams, 33 Okla. 202,124 P. 63; Ft. S. W. Ry. Co. v. Wilson, 33 Okla. 280, 124 P. 948; Denny v. Ostrander, 33 Okla. 622, 127 P. 390; Mann et al. v. Mann, 70 Okla. 30, 172 P. 777.

We deem it unnecessary to discuss the question further, as the cases cited are directly in point, and the reasons for the rule are stated in the early case of Humphrey et al. v. Hunt, supra, and Chicago, R.I. P. Ry. Co. v. Austin, supra.

The act of the 1917 Legislature, found in chapter 219, Session Laws of 1917, abolishing summons in error and providing on whom the case-made may be served and the necessary parties to the petition in error, is not applicable to this case, for the reason that this appeal was filed in this court on the 6th day of July, 1916 long prior to the passage of said act. It was held in Mann et al. v. Mann, supra, that said act was not retrospective. See, also, Buckner et al. v. Walton Trust Co.,67 Okla. 55, 168 P. 797; Merriett et al. v. Newton et al.,67 Okla. 150, 169 P. 488.

The appeal is therefore dismissed.

HARDY, C. J., and KANE HARRISON and OWEN, JJ., concurring.

JOHNSON, J., disqualified and not participating.