Opinion

Thompson v. Chamblee

  • 206 Okla. 602
  • 245 P.2d 716
  • 1952 OK 102
  • 1952 Okla. LEXIS 919
Court
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Filed
Mar 11, 1952
Status
Published
On the bench
Halley, Welch, Corn, Gibson, Davison, Johnson, O'Neal, Bingaman
Cited by
3 cases
Authority
More cited than 84.3%

The opinion

PER CURIAM.

Action by J. T. Chamblee against C. H. Thompson to recover- a real estate broker’s commission.

Upon the trial of the issues, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. In the motion for a new trial, the plaintiff urged, among other things, that the court erred in giving instruction No. 6. The court sustained the motion for new trial and recited in his order

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“that plaintiff should be granted a new trial in this cause particularly on account of certain instructions, to wit, Nos. 3 and 6, which are conflicting”.

Upon examination, these instructions are found to be clearly repugnant to each other, and conflicting and confusing to the jury. The court, therefore, correctly granted a new trial, because of them. El Kouri v. Toma, 200 Okla. 354 , 194 P. 2d 872 .

The trial court is vested with broad discretion in granting or denying a new trial, and its action in granting a new trial will not be disturbed on appeal unless it clearly appears that the court erred in some pure, simple and unmixed question of law, or has acted arbitrarily or capriciously.

The order of the court in sustaining said motion for new trial is therefore affirmed.

This court acknowledges the services of Attorneys John F. Butler, Mart Brown, and Merton Bulla, who as Special Masters aided in the preparation of this opinion. These attorneys were recommended by the Oklahoma Bar Association, approved by the Judicial Council, and appointed by the court.

HALLEY, V. C. J., and WELCH, CORN, GIBSON, DAVISON, JOHNSON, O’NEAL, and BINGAMAN, JJ., concur.

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