SNELL v. TUNNELL

No. 88-2879.

920 F.2d 673 (1990)

Clark Davenport SNELL; Sharon Ruth Snell, individuals, husband and wife; Jim R. Snell, an individual; Beth Snell, a minor child by her next friends and parents Clark and Sharon Snell; Jason Snell, a minor child by his next friends and parents Clark and Sharon Snell; Brittany Snell, a minor child by her next friends and parents Clark and Sharon Snell; Patricia Jean Turtle, by her next friends and legal guardians Clark and Sharon Snell; and Jesse Sanders, by his next friends and legal guardians Clark and Sharon Snell, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Conley TUNNELL; Lissa Vernon; Mary Asbury; the Honorable Sidney D. Brown; and State of Oklahoma ex rel. the Department of Human Services, Defendants, and Michael Sweptson; Barbara Sieck; Benita Levingston; and Pamela Padley, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

November 30, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Brown, Asst. Gen. Counsel (Charles Lee Waters, Gen. Counsel, Roger Stuart and Richard L. Freeman, Jr., Asst. Gen. Counsel, with him on the brief), Legal Div., Dept. of Human Services, Oklahoma City, Okl., for defendants-appellants.

Marjorie Ramana (Allan DeVore with her on the brief), The DeVore Law Firm, Oklahoma City, Okl., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before SEYMOUR and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges and SAFFELS, District Judge.


BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well; but she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. M. Twain, Following the Equator ch. XI at 107 (Harper Bros. ed...

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