Legal Opinion
Bell v. Burlington Northern Railroad Co.
Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided October 3, 1987No. 62757PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRIGHTMIRE, Judge.
Foremost among the issues raised in the defending railroad’s appeal from the judgment below is the effect of its ill-fated lunch hour removal of the action to federal court which it sought in an effort to abort and lay waste to a long trial just as argument to the jury was about to commence. Notwithstanding the removal, the trial judge proceeded to complete the trial which eventuated in a verdict and judgment for plaintiffs.
We hold no reversible error affects the judgment and affirm it.
I
The operative facts are these. Near Kiefer, Oklahoma, on a hot August day in 1981, a tank…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Great Northern Railway Co. v. AlexanderSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Virginia v. RivesSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Metropolitan Casualty Insurance v. StevensSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Wilson v. SandstromSupreme Court of Florida · 1975
- Lathrop, Shea & Henwood Co. v. Interior Construction & Improvement Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1909
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3Cited by8 opinions
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