Culp v. State

1925 OK 191, 234 P. 730, 109 Okla. 6, 1925 Okla. LEXIS 658

• Court: Supreme Court of Oklahoma
• Decided: March 10, 1925
• Docket: 13099
• Status: Published

Opinion

PER OURIAM.

In this ease defendants below demurred to plaintiff’s petition. The demurrer was overruled, defendants excepted. but refused to elect to stand on their demurrer. In the journal entry overruling the demurrer we find this language:

‘‘Further orders to plead in said cause will be made or taken in accordance with the judgment of the Supreme Court as will appear from the mandate therein.”

No further judgment in the case was either rendered or entered, therefore, under authorities of Exchange Oil Company v. Crews et al., 90 Okla. 245, 216 Pac. 674, and Stebbins et al. v. Edwards, 107 Okla. 139, 231 Pac. 507, and the more recent case of Freeman et al. v. Gibson, 107 Okla. 220, 232 Pac. 806, the appeal in this case should he dismissed. The defendants in the court below should be required to elect whether they will -stand upon their demurrer: if they elect to stand, judgment should be rendered and entered for plaintiff, and appeal may he then taken: by defendants to this court. If defendants shall elect to plead further they may save their exceptions to the action of the court in overruling their demurrer and the question may he properly presented to this court upon the -uiiole case, when final judg-mest shall have been, rendered, and appeal shall have been taken to this court. We therefore recommend that this appeal he dismissed.

By flip Court: It is so ordered.