# Oklahoma City Livestock Exchange v. Parkey

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · December 14, 1943 · 193 Okla. 426

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3812617

## Case

- **Full name:** OKLAHOMA CITY LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE Et Al. v. PARKEY Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** December 14, 1943
- **Citations:** 193 Okla. 426; 144 P.2d 960; 1943 OK 415; 1943 Okla. LEXIS 430
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Riley
- **Judges:** Corn, Gibson, Osborn, Bayless, Welch, Davison, Riley, Hurst, Arnold
- **Cited by:** 3 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

RILEY, J.
(dissenting). The business of a livestock exchange is a wholesale mercantile establishment. The volunteer nature of the business is wholly immaterial, for sales of cattle in lots, droves, and herds are made by and through the agency or establishment.
It is a trade organization existing for profit, and so a commercial enterprise. While it affords protection to its members in the operation of their private
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undertakings, and while those private undertakings may be afforded exemption under the act, the collective enterprise and establishments may not properly escape protection to an injured employee, for by law applicable the livestock exchange is a “wholesale mercantile establishment,” and within terms of the act.

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