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GULF OIL COMPANY v. WOODSON

No. 45900.

505 P.2d 484 (1972)

GULF OIL COMPANY and Charles Simpson, Petitioners, v. The Honorable Charles WOODSON, District Judge of Creek County, State of Oklahoma, and Carolyn Sue Martin, a minor, by and through her mother and next friend, Mrs. Don Martin, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

December 26, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones, Givens, Brett, Gotcher & Doyle, by Thomas R. Brett, and Phillips Breckinridge, Tulsa, for petitioners Gulf Oil Co., and Charles Simpson.

Charles Daniels, Drumright, and Hunt & Thomas by Jake Hunt, Oklahoma City, for respondents, District Judge, and others.

George B. Fraser, Norman, Best, Sharp, Thomas & Glass by Joseph A. Sharp, Tulsa, Sellers & Sellers, Sapulpa, amicus curiae.

Elliott C. Fenton, Fenton, Fenton, Smith, Reneau & Moon, Oklahoma City, amicus curiae, for Okl. Assn. of defense counsel.

Franklin, Harmon & Satterfield, Inc., by Harvey L. Harmon, Oklahoma City, amicus curiae, for St. Louis-San Francisco R. Co.

JACKSON, Justice.

This is an original action wherein we are requested by Gulf Oil Company and Charles Simpson to assume original jurisdiction and prohibit the Honorable Charles Woodson, District Judge in Creek County from exercising jurisdiction in a damage suit upon the ground that Creek County does not have venue. They also ask for a writ of mandamus as hereinafter discussed. Jurisdiction assumed but writs denied.

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