STATE EX REL. MURPHY v. BOUDREAU

No. 57426.

653 P.2d 531 (1982)

The STATE of Oklahoma ex rel. William James MURPHY, Petitioner, v. Daniel J. BOUDREAU, Special District Judge of the District Court of Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied November 9, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.B. Savage, Morehead, Savage, O'Donnell, McNulty & Cleverdon, Tulsa, for petitioner.

Loyal J. Roach, III, Tulsa, Lawrence A. Wright, Jr., Kiowa, Colo., for respondent.


LAVENDER, Justice:

This is an original action in which Petitioner seeks this Court's writ of mandamus to compel the Respondent to retain jurisdiction of Petitioner's motion to change custody of one of his sons from the mother to the Petitioner. The trial court, Respondent herein, declined to exercise the "continuing" jurisdiction provided for by 12 O.S. 1981, § 1277 and instead, following what he perceived to be the...

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