# Terry v. Edgin

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · July 24, 1979 · 598 P.2d 228

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9565746

## Case

- **Full name:** Jimmy Neal TERRY, Appellant, v. Gore EDGIN Dba Gore Edgin Construction Company, the City of Norman, Oklahoma, a Municipal Corporation, And, Cleveland County, Oklahoma, Acting by and Through Its Board of County Commissioners, Appellees
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** July 24, 1979
- **Citations:** 598 P.2d 228; 1979 OK 111; 1979 Okla. LEXIS 262
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Opala
- **Judges:** Simms, Barnes, Doolin, Opala, Lavender, Irwin, Williams, Hargrave
- **Cited by:** 14 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

OPALA, Justice,
concurring specially:
The court is correct when it rejects today, on grounds of doubtful historicity, the widely assumed notion that the common-law rule of sovereign immunity from tort liability extends a shield of protection as to all county functions, governmental and proprietary. Even if I were not convinced that our result here rests on solid historical antecedents, I would nonetheless concur in the court’s opinion because, in my view, the common-law rule no longer merits our continued recognition in any form. Our commitment to that norm of judge-made law should be withdrawn prospectively for the reasons advanced in my concurring opinion in Walton v. Charles Pfizer & Co., Inc., Okl., 590 P.2d 1190, 1194-1195 [1979].

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