
    M. B. ARMSTRONG MUSIC CO. v. POLK.
    No. 14207
    Opinion Filed Sept. 25, 1923.
    (Syllabus.)
    Appeal and Error — Failure of Defendant in Error to File Brief- — Reversal.
    Where the plaintiff in error has duly filed and served brief in compliance with the rule of the Supreme Court, and defendant lias neither filed brief nor offered excuse for failure so to do, the Supreme Court will not search the record to find some theory upon which the judgment may be sustained: but, where the brief filed appears reasonably to sustain any assignment of prejudicial error, the judgment will be reversed.
    Error from District Court, Garvin County ; W. L. Eagleton, Judge.
    Action between B. R. Polk and the M. B. Armstrong Music Company. From the judgment, the latter brings error.
    Reversed and remanded, with directions.
    Ames, Lowe & Richardson and H.M. Carr, for plaintiff in error.
    M. Henderson, for defendant in error.
   COCHRAN, J.

Plaintiff in error filed its brief herein on July 20, 1923. No brief has been filed by defendant in error and no extension of time given to file same and no reason assigned why brief has not been filed, tinder the rule of this court, when the brief of plaintiff in error appears reasonably to sustain the assignments of error, this court will not search the record to find some theory upon which judgment may be sustained. Following this rule, the judgment of the trial court in this cause is reversed, and cause remanded, with directions to grant a new trial.

All the Justices concur.  