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JAMES v. TYSON FOODS, INC.

No. 109,046.

292 P.3d 10 (2012)

2012 OK 21

Lee Weldon JAMES, Carolyn Jones, Bobby Nall, Barbara Nall, Shirley Potts, Carla Holmes, P & H Partnership, Steve Pratt, Vicki Pratt, Linda Strawn, and Gloria Michelle Strawn, Plaintiffs/Appellees, and Rusty Armstrong, Diane Armstrong, Tim Bartlett, Jimmy Beam, Cheryl Callaway, Burl G. Chappell, Mike Converse, Tonya Converse, Darlene Gibson, Darlene Gibson Farm, Jerry L. Dollarhide, Jeff Engler, William L. Evans, Hazel Fennell, James D. Gamble, Johnny Gilbreath, Gilbreath Farm, Wanda Goodman, J & W Farm, Justin Graham, Rocky Green, Rebecca Green, Blaine Horton, Ernestine Horton, Ginger Johnson, Billy Johnson, James E. Latta, Ivan Lowrey, Sandra Meeks, Judy Gale Nichols, Tracy C. Pond, Wesley Roberts, Carlene Sharrock, Richard Smith, Larry D. Stewart, Benny Strawn, Lewis Timbes, Roger W. Virgin, Jeff Donald Watson, Earl Westbrook, Joyce Westbrook, Linda Westbrook, and Ladonna Williams, Plaintiffs, v. TYSON FOODS, INC.; Tyson Poultry, Inc.; Russell Adams, Defendants/Appellants, and Harriet Piper, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied December 11, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Burrage , Whitten Burrage Law Firm, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Bill W. Burgess , Burgess & Hightower Law Firm, Lawton, Oklahoma, Robert T. Adams , pro hac vice, John S. Johnston , pro hac vice, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Kansas City, Missouri, for Defendants/Appellants.

Glenn D. Adams , Norman, Oklahoma, Jim Loftis , Loftis & Barnard, Norman, Oklahoma, for Plaintiffs/Appellees.

WATT, J.:

¶ 1 At the behest of Tyson and with the agreement of the poultry growers, we retained this cause to address two questions. The first is whether Tyson is entitled to a new trial under facts where questioning was limited to matters not covered by the jury questionnaire and the answers given in that document were incomplete, untruthful, and/or misleading. The second is a first impression issue: whether poultry growers, having no title to the chickens or...

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