STATE EX REL. CARTWRIGHT v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC

No. 56587.

663 P.2d 718 (1982)

STATE of Oklahoma ex rel. Jan Eric CARTWRIGHT, Attorney General of Oklahoma, Appellant, v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION; John Deere Company; Pryor Industrial Conservation Company; N-Ren Corporation; Nipak, Inc.; National Gypsum Company; Pryor Foundry, Inc.; Kaiser Agricultural Chemicals Corporation; the Oklahoma Ordnance Works Authority, and Jay Casey, Trustee, Gene R. Redden, Trustee, William P. Willis, Jr., Trustee, Russell F. Hunt, Trustee, W. Carlisle Mabry, Trustee, Acting in their Official Capacities as Trustees of the Oklahoma Ordnance Works Authority, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied June 7, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jan Eric Cartwright, Atty. Gen., pro se.

Floyd W. Taylor, First Asst. Atty. Gen., John F. Cooper, Asst. Atty. Gen., Oklahoma City, for appellant.

Charles W. Shipley, Lance Stockwell, Boesche, McDermott & Eskridge, Tulsa, Andrew Wilcoxen, Wilcoxen & Cate, Muskogee, for appellee, Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Frederic Dorwart, J. Michael Medina, Holliman, Langholz, Runnels & Dorwart, Tulsa, for appellee, Nipak, Inc.

Alfred B. Knight, Knight, Wagner, Stuart & Wilkerson, Tulsa, for appellee, Pryor Indus. Conservation Co.

Gene L. Mortensen, Rosenstein, Fist & Ringold, Tulsa, for appellee, Pryor Foundry, Inc.

Richard C. Ford, D. Kent Meyers, Crowe, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford, Johnson & Burdick, Oklahoma City, Joe R. Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy & Wright, Muskogee, for appellee, Nat. Gypsum.

William C. Anderson, Doerner, Stuart, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, Tulsa, Jack Y. Goree, Whitten, Osmond, Goree & Davies, Tulsa, for appellee, Oklahoma Ordnance Works Authority.

Charles C. Baker, Ronald N. Ricketts, Gable, Gotwals, Rubin, Fox, Johnson & Baker, Tulsa, for appellee, Kaiser Agricultural Chemicals Corp.

John S. Athens, Gary C. Clark, Conner, Winters, Ballaine, Barry & McGowen, Tulsa, for appellee, John Deere Co.

William D. Nay, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Collingsworth & Nelson, Tulsa, Gary J. Dean, Lyons & Dean, Pryor, for appellee, N-Ren Corp.


LAVENDER, Justice:

The Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma brought suit in the District Court of Mayes County, State of Oklahoma, in the name of the State of Oklahoma, ex rel. Jan Eric Cartwright, Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma, against defendants below for actual and punitive damages to the State of Oklahoma by reason of loss of certain fish and water fowl, cleanup costs,

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