Lanford v. Commerce Acceptance Co.

HALLEY, Chief Justice:

Parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court. The sole question involved in this appeal is the correctness of the ruling the trial court in dismissing the appeal of the defendants from a judgment entered in a justice of the peace court because of their failure to file an appeal bond in the justice court within a period of ten days after judgment was entered as required in § 242, Title 39, O.S.1961.

The judgment was entered in the justice court on December 20, 1963. The appeal bond was filed on December 31, 1963, or one day late.

The Oklahoma Court in…