Case Name: The STATE of Oklahoma ex rel. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Petitioner, v. Tom Z. WRIGHT et al., Respondents; The STATE of Oklahoma ex rel. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Petitioner, v. Ray Dean LINDER, District Judge In and For Woodward County, State of Oklahoma, Respondent
Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1992-05-05
Citations: 837 P.2d 1387
Docket Number: Nos. 78963, 78964, 78969 and 78963
Parties: The STATE of Oklahoma ex rel. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Petitioner, v. Tom Z. WRIGHT et al., Respondents. The STATE of Oklahoma ex rel. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Petitioner, v. Ray Dean LINDER, District Judge In and For Woodward County, State of Oklahoma, Respondent.
Judges: HODGES, V.C.J., LAVENDER, SIMMS and ALMA WILSON, JJ., and LUMPKIN, S.J., concur.
Reporter: Pacific Reporter 2d
Volume: 837
Pages: 1387–1387

Head Matter:
The STATE of Oklahoma ex rel. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Petitioner, v. Tom Z. WRIGHT et al., Respondents. The STATE of Oklahoma ex rel. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Petitioner, v. Ray Dean LINDER, District Judge In and For Woodward County, State of Oklahoma, Respondent.
Nos. 78963, 78964, 78969 and 78963.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma.
May 5, 1992.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 1, 1992.

Opinion:
ORDER
Original jurisdiction is assumed. Cause No. 78,969 is consolidated under the surviving number Cause No. 78,963 (consolidated with No. 78,964). Writ of mandamus issue, requiring respondent, Ray Dean Linder, Judge of the District Court of Woodward County, or any other assigned judge to proceed with a jury trial in Cause No. C-90-57 and Cause No. C-90-58 on the docket of Woodward County. The demand for jury trial filed by State of Oklahoma ex-rel. Department of Transportation was in writing and complies with 69 O.S.1991 § 1203. The trial court was without power to entertain, act upon, or render a default judgment or summary judgment. Condemnation proceedings are special proceedings. Only the trial and the judgment resulting therefrom is to be conducted in the same manner as civil actions in the district court. 69 O.S.1991 § 1203(e)(1). Summary judgment is not available. The condemnation actions must proceed to trial by a jury.
HODGES, V.C.J., LAVENDER, SIMMS and ALMA WILSON, JJ., and LUMPKIN, S.J., concur.
OP ALA, C.J., and HARGRAVE, KAUGER and SUMMERS, JJ., dissent.