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TATUM v. TATUM

No. 54808.

736 P.2d 506 (1982)

Gloria TATUM, Individually, and Gloria Tatum, as Natural Mother, Guardian Ad Litem and Next Friend of Rosbon Tatum and Jacqueline Tatum, minor children, and City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a municipal corporation, Petitioners, v. Florine Bagby TATUM, and Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied May 27, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Waldo F. Bales, City Atty., Victor R. Seagle, Tulsa, for petitioner, City of Tulsa.

Pat Malloy, Malloy & Malloy, Bruce O. Taliaferro, James R. Elder, Taliaferro, Malloy & Elder, Tulsa, for other petitioners.

Charles E. Payne, Russell, Payne & Farber, Oklahoma City, for respondents.

OPALA, Justice:

This case presents four issues: [1] Did the trial tribunal use the wrong criteria in determining the identity of statutory beneficiaries of a death claim? [2] Was the legal widow entitled to an award as decedent's deserted spouse? [3] Did the trial tribunal correctly deny death benefits to the person who sought an award for herself as the common-law wife and for her two children as dependent stepchildren of...

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