Legal Opinion
Watford v. West
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided October 14, 2003No. 99,126PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSummers, J.
T1 The issue is whether a petition in the District Court may be amended to show the changed status of a plaintiff who was a minor when the suit was begun, but who became of age during its pendency, where the plaintiffs and their attorneys did not correct their petition to show the change until after the statute of limitations had expired. We conclude that under the cireumstances here such an amendment should have been allowed, and the case should not have been dismissed.
2 The parents of John Jerod Watford, a minor child, alleged that he was negligently injured. They filed an action in the…
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