National Trailer Convoy, Inc. v. Oklahoma Turnpike Authority

SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION ON REHEARING

DAVISON, Justice.

Plaintif f urges on rehearing that we consider and determine the force and effect of 12 O.S.1961, § 831. Plaintiff contends this statute is in derogation of the common law rule and changed the substantive law that at common law joint tortfeasors, as. a general rule, have no right of contribution among themselves.

*242Section 831 of the Code of Civil Procedure is as follows:

“When property, liable to an execution against several persons, is sold thereon, and more than a due proportion of the judgment is laid upon the property of one of them, or one…