CARTWRIGHT v. ATLAS CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 54023.

623 P.2d 606 (1981)

Tommy J. CARTWRIGHT, James F. Murphy and Stephen A. Little, Co-Administrators of the Estate of Ira L. Lauderdale, Deceased, Appellees, v. ATLAS CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, INC., a foreign corporation; American Cyanamid Company, a foreign corporation; and Deupree Distributing Co., Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

January 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rhodes, Hieronymus, Holloway & Wilson by Russell B. Holloway and A. Scott Johnson, Oklahoma City, for appellants.

Jack B. Sellers, Law Assoc. Inc. by Jack B. Sellers, Sapulpa, for appellees.


OPALA, Justice:

The single issue raised by this appeal is whether the body of a petition may be amended in the trial court — after issuance of appellate mandate affirming the judgment — to substitute for the name of a misdescribed party-defendant the correct corporate designation of the intended but misidentified adversary. We hold that in the rather unusual posture narrowly delimited by the facts of...

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