Opinion ID: 1182076
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: this court's common-law certiorari is invocable to review jurisdictional fact issues

Text: Although in this case the employer timely invoked our certiorari cognizance under Art. 7 § 5, Okl. Const., [14] common-law certiorari, whose authority derives from Art. 7 § 4, Okl. Const., [15] is also available to review the tendered jurisdictional issue resolved today  i.e., whether this claimant stood in an employment status vis-a-vis the party he had haled into court. [16] If appellate remedy be absent or ineffective, common-law certiorari generally lies in this court for review of facts bearing on subject-matter jurisdiction of the lower tribunal. In short, the writ is invocable to determine the question whether the lower court stayed within or exceeded its cognizance. [17]