Legal Opinion
Woods Development Co. v. Meurer Abstract & Title Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided December 24, 1985No. 59640PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
HODGES, Justice.
The case requires us to decide the following issue of first impression: Whether 1 O.S. 1981 § 7 (repealed 1984)1 violates the *32Oklahoma and United States Constitutions in setting maximum fees for abstracting services. The District Court of Pawnee County found the maximum fee schedule established in 1910 to be advisory only, and if applied to the current abstracting industry it would be vague, economically unreasonable and confiscatory. The trial court therefore held the statute unconstitutional. The trial court’s ruling was certified for an interlocutory appeal to this Court.…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Woods Development Co. v. Meurer Abstract & Title Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1985