Legal Opinion
Horton v. State
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided January 23, 1996No. 81762PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATT, Justice.
FACTS
On February 7, 1991, plaintiff, Thomas D. Horton, was an inmate in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. He was working at Lake Murray State Park in a Department of Corrections approved work release program. Horton’s supervisor took Horton and other inmates from the cabins where they had been working to the vicinity of a restaurant on the park grounds to fight a grass fire. Horton, with several other inmates and State employees, boarded a truck equipped with a 250 gallon water tank, water pump, and a hose. Charles Treadwell, a Department of Tourism…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Medina v. StateSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1993
- Redding v. StateSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1994
- Purvey v. StateSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1995
- State ex rel. Oklahoma Department of Corrections v. BurrisSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1995
3Cited by3 opinions
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