Legal Opinion
Bookout v. Great Plains Regional Medical Center
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided April 8, 1997No. 87185PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAUGER, Chief Justice.
The dispositive issue presented on certiorari is whether, under the facts presented here, the trial court erred when it refused to allow two additional days to respond to a motion for summary judgment. 1 We find that it did.
FACTS
On March 23, 1995, the appellant, Ethel Bookout, (Bookout/widow), filed a petition in the District Court of Beckham County, Oklahoma, seeking damages for alleged negligence by the appellee, Great Plains Regional Medical Center (Medical Center), after her husband died -while recovering from surgery. Just before the Christmas holidays in late…
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