
    In re SEIZURE OF ONE CHEVROLET BABY GRAND AUTO, FIVE PASSENGER MOTOR NO. 1216 S. 497, LICENSE NO. 100818, 1916 MODEL (THE STATE BANK OF COLLINSVILLE, Interpleader) v. STATE.
    No. 10282
    Opinion Filed July 5, 1921.
    (Syllabus.)
    Appeal and Error — Failure to File Brief—Dismissal.
    When a cáse is pending in this court and is set for hearing on the- regular printed docket and the plaintiff in error fails to filé brief in compliance with rule 7 of this court (47 -Okla. vi), under said rule this-court may exercise its. discretion and dismiss the appeal for failure to file brief.
    -'¡¡Error, from. County Court, Rogers County; Edward' Jordan, -Judge.- ;• ' - ■ .
    ■' Action to forfeit to the State of Oklahoma on-e Baby Grand, five passenger, Chevrolet automobile. The State Bank . of Collins-ville appears as interpleader. Judgment forfeiting the automobile and against the claims of the interpleader. The State Bank of Collinsville appeals.'
    Appeal dismissed.
    Goldesberry & Boone, for plaintiff in error.
    Mack R. Shanks, for defendant in error.
   MILLER, J.

This action was commenced in the county court of Rogers county by petition and return signed and -filed by Mack R. ¡Shanks, county attorney, and sworn to by O. W. Payne, deputy sheriff of Rogers county, Oklahoma, showing that on the 9tt day of March, 1018, in Rogers county, he arrested one Lon Ruth and R. L. English, who were then and there conveying 60 quarts of intoxicating liquor, commonly called whisky, from one place within the state of Oklahoma to another place within the state of Oklahoma, each of which. places was definitely and specifically described. That the said 60 quarts of intoxicating liquor were being conveyed in the Chevrolet Baby Grand, five passenger, automobile described in the title hereto. That said car was being used in violation of the prohibitory liquor laws of -the state of Oklahoma. The prayer of «aid petition was that it be set down for hearing to determine whether or not said automobile was being used in violation of the prohibitory liquor laws of the state ¡of Oklahoma and should be forfeited to the state of Oklahoma.

To this petition the State Bank of Collins-ville, Oklahoma, filed an interplea. Issues were joined and the case tried to the court, which resulted in a. judgment forfeiting the ■Chevrolet Baby Grand, five passenger, automobile to the state of Oklahoma. Prom this judgment the interpleader, State Bank of Collinsville, appealed and appears here as plaintiff in error.

This case was regularly assigned for submission on June 21, 1921, on the printed docket of this court. The plaintiff in error has not filfed a brief. It has not made any showing why it has failed to comply with rule 7 of this court (47 Okla. vi), which provides as follows:

“VII. In each civil canse filed in this court, counsel for plaintiff in error shall, unless otherwise ordered by the court, serve his brief on counsel for defendant in error at least forty (40) days before the case is set for submission. Counsel for plaintiff in error shall file with the clterk of this court twenty (20) coinés of such brief within the time above designated, and defendant in error shall, within thirty (30) days after the service of the brief of plaintiff in error upon him, file with the clerk of .this court' twenty (20) copies of his: answer, brief, and serve same-upon plaintiff in error; and all reply briefs, except as otherwise ordered by the court, must be filed, by the da’te the case is submitted or called for argument. Proof of service must ¡be filed with the clerk within ten (10) days after service.
“In case of failure to comply with the requirements of this rule, the court may continue or dismiss the cause, or reverse or affirm 'the judgment, in its discretion.”

This appeal is hereby dismissed, because oí the failure" of. plaintiff in error to file brief. Appeal dismissed.

PITCHFORD, V. C. J., and McNEILL; ELTING, and NICHOLSON, JJ., concur.  