PAUL v. N.L. INDUSTRIES. INC.

No. 52413.

624 P.2d 68 (1980)

Bob PAUL, Appellant, v. N.L. INDUSTRIES, INC. and John Stelting, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied March 2, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl P. Enos, Duncan, for appellant.

Tom L. King, King, Tague & Roberts, Oklahoma City, for appellees.


DOOLIN, Justice:

The quandary of the absent, or "ghost", tortfeasor is brought before this Court for the first time since we decided that several liability shall rule in comparative negligence cases.1

Plaintiff Paul was working at an oil drilling site in Canadian County. Defendant Stelting was delivering a load of drilling mud for Defendant N.L. Industries, Inc. The only road to the mud storage house passed between a butane storage...

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