ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY CO. v. DISTRICT COURT

No. 46399.

512 P.2d 170 (1973)

ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY CO., Petitioner, v. DISTRICT COURT OF CREEK COUNTY and Hon. Charles S. Woodson, District Judge, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

June 12, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Streeter Speakman, Jr., Sapulpa, Loeffler & Allen, Tulsa, Franklin, Harmon & Satterfield, Inc. by Ben Franklin, Oklahoma City, for petitioner.

Jack B. Sellers, Sapulpa, for respondent.


HODGES, Justice.

This action is for a writ of mandamus, or an otherwise proper remedial order, to require respondent district judge to transfer a consolidated wrongful death and survivorship action to Garfield County. The application of the doctrine of forum non conveniens in an intrastate transitory action is involved.

The co-administrators of the estate of decedent originally filed two actions arising from a railroad...

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