CRAVATT v. CITY OF OKLAHOMA CITY

No. 36981.

295 P.2d 807 (1956)

Lucille CRAVATT and Benjamine F. Cravatt, Jr., Petitioners, v. CITY OF OKLAHOMA CITY, a Municipal Corporation, Own Risk, Keith Jones, doing business as Jones Boys # 6, Standard Insurance Company, a corporation, and the State Industrial Commission, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

March 27, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie L. Conner, Arnold B. Britton, Charles W. Conner, Oklahoma City, Conner, Hilpert & Britton, Oklahoma City, of counsel, for petitioners.

Looney, Watts, Looney, Welch, Hamill & Nichols, Oklahoma City, A.L. Jeffrey, Municipal Counselor, George E. Dane, Asst. Municipal Counselor, Oklahoma City, for respondents.


WELCH, Justice.

On July 16, 1954, Benjamine F. Cravatt, a police officer of the City of Oklahoma City, while engaged in performing his duties as such officer lost his life as a result of a gunshot wound inflicted upon him at the hands of a robber while he was engaged in attempting to prevent a robbery of the grocery store of Keith Jones, doing business as Jones Boys No. 6, located at Southeast 44th and Shields, Oklahoma City...

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