Legal Opinion
Young v. Walton
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided March 5, 1991No. 74779PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPALA, Chief Justice.
The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether venue lay in Okfuskee County, where the plaintiff sued in contract and in willful tort. We answer in the negative.
This is an action by a former district attorney (plaintiff or Young) against his successor (McClain) and two of the latter's assistants (collectively called defendants) for nonfeasance in public office and breach of implied contract. The wrong consists of the defendants’ willful neglect of statutory (and contractual) duty to provide him appeal-related defense services in another case whose operative facts arose…
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