Harper v. Pierce
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from Ottawa County Court; W. Y. Quigley, Judge. Action by M. L. Pierce against J. B. Harper. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
BREWER, C.
This suit is over the right of possession of a dark Jersey cow with sawed-off^ horns.
Harper was defendant in a replevin suit in a justice of the peace court and lost. He appealed to the county court, and his appeal was dismissed on the ground that he had not filed a proper appeal bond.
Two reasons were assigned in the motion to dismiss the appeal; one being that the bond did not contain the statutory condition “to prosecute the appeal to effect and without unnecessary delay,” and, second, that the bond, although filed and approved at the proper time, bore a date in its body…
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