Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1973

The court affirmed summary judgment for all defendants in a wrongful-death negligence action arising from the decedent's fatal overdose of a prescription sleeping drug. It held that the evidence established, as the only reasonable inference, that the decedent voluntarily committed suicide, making his act an…

The court affirmed the six-month revocation of Phares's driver's license after he refused chemical testing unless he first consulted an attorney. It held that the refusal constituted a refusal under the implied-consent law, that the law was constitutional and sufficiently definite, and that it applied to…