Thayer v. Phillips Petroleum Co.

HODGES, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order which denied Haydee L. Thayer’s [Appellant-Plaintiff] attorney fees after the case had been transferred, at the request of Phillips Petroleum Company [Appellee-Defendant], by the Small Claims Court to the District Court1 where the plaintiff prevailed.

The defendant contended before the district court that the statute was unconstitutional because it violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and the Okla.Const. art. 2 § 6,2 which provides for ready access to the courts and administration of…