Legal Opinion
Gordon v. Followell
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided March 31, 1964No. 40678PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACKSON, Justice.
This is an application by petitioner, Ben Gordon, for this court to assume original jurisdiction for the purpose of issuing a writ of prohibition against the respondent judge, preventing him from proceeding further in a certain action filed in the District Court of McIntosh County under the Oklahoma Declaratory Judgments Act, 12 O.S. 1961, § 1651 et seq.
The petition for declaratory judgment alleges that in 1962, while Bessie Gammel was under guardianship and suffering from cancer in its terminal stages, she entered into a purported marriage with Ben Gordon, and that she died…
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