WOODS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, in behalf of themselves and other similarly situated, Appellants,
v.
MEURER ABSTRACT & TITLE CO.; Abstract and Guaranty of Blaine County, Ok., Inc.; Beaver County Abstract Co.; Caddo County Abstract Company, Inc.; Capitol Abstract and Title Company; Choctaw Abstract and Title, Inc.; Claremore Abstract & Guaranty Company; Cochran Abstract Company; Creek County Abstract Co., Inc.; Duncan Abstract Company; Garvin County Abstract Company; Goetzinger Abstract & Title Company; Grand River Abstract and Title Company; Guthrie Abstract Company; Jelsma Abstract Company; Little Dixie Abstract; Photo Abstract Company; Poteau-LeFlore County Abstract Company; Roberts Abstract Co., Inc.; Seminole County Abstract Co.; Security Abstract Company; Solomon Abstract Company; Southern Abstract and Title Company; Stephens County Abstract Company; Union-Speer Abstract Company; Warranty Title & Abstract Company; Washita Valley Abstract Company; Throckmorton Abstract Co., Inc.; Tulsa Abstract & Title Co., Appellees.
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December 24, 1985.
December 24, 1985.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Lawrence A.G. Johnson and Belva M. Brooks, Tulsa, for appellant Woods Development Co.
Oliver & Evans, Inc. by Larry L. Oliver, G. Bruce Sewell, and Sidney A. Martin, Legal Asst., Tulsa, for appellees Meurer Abstract & Title Co., Choctaw Abstract & Title Co., Little Dixie Abstract, Poteau LeFlore County Abstract Co., Robert Abstract Co., Inc., and Southern Abstract and Title Co.
Veva L. Riley, Watonga, for appellee Abstract and Guar. of Blaine County, Okl., Inc.
Donald E. Herrold, Tulsa, for appellee Beaver County Abstract Co.
Pain & Garland by Leslie Pain, Anadarko, for appellee Caddo County Abstract Co.
McAfee & Taft by Ray G. Moss, Oklahoma City, for appellee Capitol Abstract and Title Co.
Thomas H. Williams, Claremore, for appellee Claremore Abstract & Guaranty Co.
Robert J. Hays, Chickasha, for appellee Cochran Abstract Co.
Loeffler, Allen & Johnson by Keith Ham, Bristow, for appellee Creek County Abstract Co., Inc.
Leach, Sullivan, Green & Buxton by Paul D. Sullivan, Duncan, for appellees Duncan Abstract Co., Stephens County Abstract Co.
Crow & Dunlevy by William G. Paul, Oklahoma City, for appellee Garvin County Abstract Co.
Duke Halley, Woodward, for appellee Goetzinger Abstract & Title Co.
Gene Davis, Jay, for appellee Grand River Abstract and Title Co.
Williams & Hirzel by Thomas R. Williams, Guthrie, for appellees Guthrie Abstract Co., Jelsma Abstract Co.
James W. Thompson, Miami, for appellee Photo Abstract Co.
Robert B. Bird, Stillwater, for appellee Seminole County Abstract Co.
Thomas M. Rigdon, Newkirk, for appellee Security Abstract Co.
Harold Logsdon, Kingfisher, for appellee Solomon Abstract Co.
Mitchell & Schultz by J. Bruce Schultz, Sapulpa, for appellee Union Speer Abstract Co.
Randy D. Mecklenburg, Kingfisher, for appellee Throckmorton Abstract Co., Inc.
Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Collingsworth & Nelson by Richard E. Comfort and Tyrus V. Dahl, Jr., Tulsa, for appellee Tulsa Abstract & Title Co.
Porta, Bass & Bass, P.C. by James C. Bass, El Reno, for appellee Warranty Title & Abstract Co.
John M. Nelson Chickasha, for appellee Washita Valley Abstract Co.
Hastie & Kirschner by George W. Dahnke and Merrilyn L. Blackburn, Oklahoma City, for amicus curiae Oklahoma Land Title Ass'n.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma.
HODGES, Justice.
The case requires us to decide the following issue of first impression: Whether 1 O.S. 1981 § 7 (repealed 1984)1 violates the Oklahoma and United States Constitutions in setting maximum fees for abstracting services. The District Court of Pawnee County found the maximum fee schedule established in 1910 to be advisory only, and if applied...
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