Legal Opinion

Cox v. Butts

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided June 8, 1915No. 4737PublishedCited by 22 opinions

• Error from District Court, .Tulsa County; L. M. Poe, Judge. Action by Theodore Cox against M. H. Butts. From a judgment for defendant on two of the four counts of plaintiff’s petition, plaintiff brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

MATHEWS, C.

The parties hereto will be designated as in the lower court.

Plaintiff’s petition in the lower court contained four counts, each complete within itself, all of them growing out of and connected with the same subject-matter. The trial court sustained a demurrer to the second and third counts; the plaintiff refused to amend, and announced that he would stand upon these two counts. Thereupon the court entered an order dismissing the two counts, or, more properly, the two causes of action. Plaintiff reserved exceptions and has brought the matter here upon appeal. The demurrer…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Consolidated Coal Co. v. PeersIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
  2. Commercial Bank of Madera v. RedfieldCalifornia Supreme Court · 1898
  3. Patton v. AdkinsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1883
  4. Bredell v. Fair Grounds Real Estate Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1902
  5. King v. IsrealAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1897

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3Cited by22 opinions

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  4. Smith v. Second Church of Christ, Scientist, PhoenixArizona Supreme Court · 1960
  5. Kile v. Amerada Petroleum Corp.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1925

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