Opinion ID: 2804699
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Two Commissioners’ Awards

Text: Arvest argues the district court erred in ordering the parties to repay and redeposit the monies disbursed in March 2010 because Oklahoma condemnation statutes only contemplate one commission’s award. Arvest states that Oklahoma courts strictly adhere to the statutory condemnation proceedings and argues if Oklahoma’s legislature had intended to allow for multiple commission awards, it would have said so. Contrary to Arvest’s assertion, Oklahoma’s condemnation law does allow for the possibility of a court ordering a new or supplemental commissioners’ report. See Okla. Stat. tit. 69, § 1203(e)(1) (A new appraisal should be ordered “as right and justice may require . . . on good cause shown.”); Garnett, 296 P.2d at 767 (holding it was not error for the court to order a supplemental commissioners’ report). Here, based on the original petition, the court initially asked the commissioners to value a taking of 1.88 acres; then, after the amended complaint was filed, to value a 5.16 acre taking; and then, after the second amended complaint was filed, without objection by any party, and while a jury trial was pending, to value the original 1.88 acre taking. Cf. Garnett, 296 P.2d at 767 (“The original report and the supplemental report made one complete report covering the property they were directed to value in the first - 12 - instance.”). We find no support for Arvest’s assertion this was contrary to Oklahoma condemnation law.