Foltz v. Golden Age Nursing Home

Foltz v. Golden Age Nursing Home
1990 OK 61
797 P.2d 334
Case Number: 72573
Decided: 07/10/1990
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

FAYE K. FOLTZ, PETITIONER,
v.
GOLDEN AGE NURSING HOME, STATE INSURANCE FUND, AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION COURT, RESPONDENTS.

ORDER OF SUMMARY DISPOSITION

¶1 THE COURT FINDS, from a review of the records and briefs submitted, that the recent decision in Scrappers, Inc. v. Wilson, 790 P.2d 1116 (Okla. 1990), is [797 P.2d 335] dispositive of the issue presented in the present case.

¶2 Rule 1.201 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure in Civil Cases provides that "[i]n any case in which it appears that a prior controlling appellate decision is dispositive of the appeal, the court may summarily affirm or reverse, citing in its order of summary disposition this rule and the controlling decision." Okl.Stat. tit. 12, chap. 15, app. 2 (Supp. 1983).

¶3 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED THAT the Court of Appeals' opinion is vacated and the Workers' Compensation Court's en banc Order on appeal filed January 26, 1989, is reinstated.

(s) Rudolph Hargrave

CHIEF JUSTICE

¶4 All the Justices concur.