ARBUCKLE ABSTRACT CO. v. SCOTT

No. 86,652.

975 P.2d 879 (1998)

1998 OK 125

ARBUCKLE ABSTRACT COMPANY, an Oklahoma Corporation, Appellee, v. Clifton SCOTT, Auditor and Inspector for the State of Oklahoma, Royce Moser, County Clerk of Carter County, Oklahoma and Louise Harris, Court Clerk of Carter County, Oklahoma, Defendants, and Carter County Abstract Company, Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected February 2, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Ford and Robert G. McCampbell of Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Darryl F. Roberts, Ardmore, Oklahoma for Appellee.

C. Wayne Litchfield, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and D. Michael Hisey, Ardmore, Oklahoma for Appellant.

Gary L. Henry, District Attorney for Carter County, Ardmore, Oklahoma for Defendants Court and County Clerks of Carter County.

Jerry L. Hemry, Hemry & Hemry, P. C., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for Amicus Curiae Oklahoma Land Title Association.


LAVENDER, J.

¶ 1 The following question is presented for our review: did the District Court in and for Carter County err by failing to dismiss a declaratory judgment suit brought by appellee, Arbuckle Abstract Company (AAC), a corporation desiring to become a licensed abstract company in Carter County? We hold the suit should have been dismissed because AAC failed to exhaust its administrative remedies before the Oklahoma...

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