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GAITHER BY & THROUGH CHALFIN v. CITY OF TULSA

No. 53867.

664 P.2d 1026 (1983)

Randall Don GAITHER, Deceased, By and Through his next friend, next of kin and mother, Darlene CHALFIN, Appellee, v. The CITY OF TULSA, a municipal corporation, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

May 24, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parks, Beard & Williamson by Curtis A. Parks and Michael J. Beard, Tulsa, for appellee.

Waldo F. Bales, City Atty. of Tulsa by David L. Pauling, Asst. City Atty., Tulsa, for appellant; Morris Flynn, Oklahoma City, on brief.

HODGES, Justice.

The novel issue presented is whether the divorced mother of a deceased minor child may maintain a wrongful death action without joining the natural father or personal representative? Other errors urged on appeal are: the trial court's instructions; admission of incompetent testimony relating to the mother's emotional suffering; admission of "staged" photographs; and failure to reduce the verdict by 40% under...

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