Grand River Dam Authority v. Eaton

LAVENDER, Justice.

The question we decide here is whether an appeal should be deemed moot and subject to dismissal when during the pendency of the appeal to reverse a money judgment the judgment debtor, rather than either obtaining a stay of the judgment or filing a supersedeas bond as allowed by 12 O.S. 1981, § 968, pays the final judgment because the debtor is deemed to have acquiesced in the judgment by paying it. The trial court, acting as our Special Master, being presented with no valid basis for Appellants’, Don E. and Nadja L. Eaton’s, failure to obtain a supersedeas bond (e.g.…