DOWELL v. PLETCHER

No. 110,774.

304 P.3d 457 (2013)

2013 OK 50

Jerry DOWELL, d/b/a Jerry Dowell Bail Bonding Company, International Fidelity Insurance Company, Allegheny Casualty Company, American Surety Company, Accredited Surety & Casualty Company, Inc. and Lexington National Insurance Corporation, Plaintiffs/Appellants, v. Curt PLETCHER d/b/a Action Bail Bonds, Defendant/Appellee, v. The Court Clerk of Oklahoma County, Patricia Presley, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected July 15, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark T. Hamby , P. Gae Widdows and Katherine R. Morelli , Bonham & Howard, P.L.L.C., Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the appellants.

Fourth Scoufos , Sallisaw, Oklahoma and Sharon K. Weaver, Riggs Abney Neal Turpen Orbison & Lewis, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the appellee.


EDMONDSON, J.

¶ 1 Appellants are a licensed bail bondsman and several insurance companies that issue bail bonds who complain that the defendant, Curt Pletcher, a registered professional bail bondsman in Tulsa County, is violating the Ten Bond Rule, 59 O.S.2011 § 1320(B), of the Oklahoma Bail Bondsmen Act by using a surety bondsman to write more than ten bonds per year in Oklahoma County. The "Ten Bond Rule" provides...

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