Newman v. State ex rel. Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical Colleges

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

Plaintiff in error’s son and ward, Jack Karns Newman, was injured in an automobile collision between the Volkswagen he was driving and a Ford Station Wagon driven by one Claude F. Jones, allegedly employed by the State of Oklahoma at Oklahoma State University. The collision occurred during the night of December 10, 1965, on a State Highway about 7 miles east of Stillwater.

In April, 1967, the First Session of the Thirty-First Oklahoma Legislature enacted its Senate Joint Resolution No. 19 (S.L. 1967, pp. 718-719, both inclusive), hereinafter referred to merely as “S. J. 19”,…