Tishomingo Electric Light & Power Co. v. Gullett
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Johnston' County; Robert M. Rainey, Judge. Action by the Tishomingo Electric Light & Power Company against Alexander Gullett. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
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Error from District Court, Johnston' County; Robert M. Rainey, Judge. Action by the Tishomingo Electric Light & Power Company against Alexander Gullett. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error. The petition states, in substance, the corporate existence of the plaintiff; that the defendant was engaged in the general practice of law in Tishomingo, Johnston county, Okla., and practiced in the district and appellate courts of the State of Oklahoma; that in a certain case pending in the district court of. Johnston county, Okla., wherein R. M. Harris was plaintiff, and this plaintiff was…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
DEVEREUX, C.
(after stating the facts as above). The first assignment of error is that the district court erred . in permitting the defendant to prove, under a general denial, that the president of the plaintiff had advised that it was not necessary to file the R. M. Harris case in the Supreme Court until one year after- the case-made was filed in the trial court. The question and answer on which this assignment of error is predicated are as follows:
“Q. On the theory that you were to prepare and serve the case-made, helping in it, why did you have anything to do with it after you had…
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