Legal Opinion
Sutton v. Jondahl
Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided February 27, 1975No. 46662PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRIGHTMIRE, Judge.
Landlords’ fire insurance carrier sued a tenant and his 10-year-old son (in the name of the property owners) to recover a $2,382.57 fire loss. A jury returned a verdict favoring the insurance company against only the father. From a judgment on the verdict the father appeals claiming it resulted from some fatal judicial mistakes — two instructional and one eviden-tiary. We agree and reverse for a new trial.
The pertinent background and operative facts include these. Once upon a time the elder Jondahl rented from the Suttons a home for his family in Ponca City, Oklahoma. For…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- St. John's Hospital & School of Nursing, Inc. v. ChapmanSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1967
- City of Altus v. MartinSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1939
- McKee v. NeilsonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1968
- Lawton Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. ShaughnessySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1949
- Home Owners' Loan Corp. v. ParkerSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1937
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3Cited by114 opinions
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- Alaska Insurance Co. v. RCA Alaska Communications, Inc.Alaska Supreme Court · 1981
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- New Hampshire Insurance Group v. LabombardMichigan Court of Appeals · 1986
- Union Mutual Fire Insurance v. JoergSupreme Court of Vermont · 2003
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