Grider v. USX Corp.

SUMMERS, Justice:

Although this appeal arrives here on cer-tiorari in a seemingly complicated procedural posture, resolution of a single first-*782impression issue disposes of most of it. That issue requires our interpretation of 12 O.S.1981 § 100, the “savings” statute which allows an additional year to bring a new action after a suit fails for reasons other than upon its merits. Is the one year period counted from the dismissal order of the trial court, as defendants urge, or from the terminal date of a timely appeal, as argued by plaintiff? We resolve the question in favor of the plaintiffs…