Holmes v. Offield

1908 OK 219, 98 P. 341, 22 Okla. 552, 1908 Okla. LEXIS 52

• Court: Supreme Court of Oklahoma
• Decided: November 13, 1908
• Docket: No. 2125, Okla. T.
• Status: Published

Opinion

Williams, C. J.

(after stating the facts as above). This court in the case of Goodwin et al. v. Bickford, 20 Okla. 91, 93 Pac. 549, which followed in the case of Nelson v. Lollar, 20 Okla. 291, 94 Pac. 176, held that the district court of the territory of Oklahoma had no power to impose a rule requiring that a party appealing a cause from the probate court to the district court shall deposit with the clerk of the district court $5 for costs of the clerk, and that a failure to do so within 20 days after the transcript of the trial court is deposited with the clerk of the district court shall be ground for dismissal of the appeal

The rule announced in that case would be equally applicable to appeals from justices of the peace. This cause is therefore reversed and remanded, with instructions that the order of the district court in dismissing the appeal be set aside, and the same be reinstated.

All the Justices concur.