Court Opinion

ID: 5163450
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-02 03:10:14.480739+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:56:39.413950
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[1] ORDER
[2] Original jurisdiction is assumed. Writ of prohibition issue, prohibiting respondent, Ray L. Jones, Jr., District Judge of the Third Judicial District, State of Oklahoma, or any other assigned Judge, from bifurcating the trial in Cause No. C-90-5, filed in the District Court of Washita County, styled Norma Faye Hiebert,Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate ofVicki Hiebert Bunch v. Hollis Trucks, Inc., et al. The statutorily mandated liability insurance policy of a motor carrier creates a direct and joint liability as between the motor carrier and the insurance carrier. All American Bus Lines v.Saxon, 197 Okla. 395, 172 P.2d 424 (1946); G.A. Nichols Companyv. Lockhart, 191 Okla. 296, 129 P.2d 599 (1942). Present case is not controlled by Tidmore v. Fullman, Okla., 646 P.2d 1278
(1982).
[3] DONE BY ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT IN CONFERENCE THIS 29TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1990.
[4] /s/ Rudolph Hargrave
CHIEF JUSTICE
[5] All Justices concur.