GRIDER v. USX CORP.

No. 74997.

847 P.2d 779 (1993)

Guy GRIDER, Appellant, v. USX CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation; Texas Oil & Gas Corp., a Delware corporation; TXO Production Corp., a Delaware corporation; Ratliff Exploration Company, an Oklahoma corporation; Ratliff Drilling Company, an Oklahoma corporation; Diversified Oil & Gas Exploration, Inc., an Oklahoma corporation; Diversified Well Servicing Corp., an Oklahoma corporation; Barton W. Ratliff, individually; and Jim D. Brewer, individually, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

February 23, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Gamino, Daniel J. Gamino & Associates, P.C., Oklahoma City, for appellant.

James W. Dawson, Merson & Campbell, Oklahoma City, for appellees Diversified Oil & Gas Exploration, Inc., Diversified Well Servicing Corp., and Jim D. Brewer.

Robert D. Nelon, G. Babette Patton, Andrews, Davis, Legg, Bixler, Milsten & Price, Oklahoma City, for appellees USX Corp., and Texas Oil & Gas Corp., and TXO Productions Corp.

Robert D. Baron, Eric S. Eissenstat, Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens, Oklahoma City, for appellees Ratliff Exploration Co., Ratliff Drilling Co., and Barton Ratliff.


SUMMERS, Justice:

Although this appeal arrives here on certiorari in a seemingly complicated procedural posture, resolution of a single first-impression issue disposes of most of it. That issue requires our interpretation of 12 O.S. 1981 § 100, the "savings" statute which allows an additional year to bring a new action after a suit fails for reasons other than upon its merits...

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