REDDELL v. JOHNSON

No. 87276.

942 P.2d 200 (1997)

1997 OK 86

Patrick Ryan REDDELL, Appellant, v. Derek JOHNSON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

July 1, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William W. Busby, Garrison, Brown, Carlson, Buchanan & Busby, Bartlesville, for Appellant.

Richard G. Harris, Harris, Whitebread & Cone, Bartlesville, for Appellee.


SUMMERS, Vice Chief Justice.

¶ 1 Does a voluntary combatant in a "BB gun war" have an action against the player who shot him in the eye, given that the "rules" of the game prohibited aiming above the waist? We say no, and affirm the trial court's dismissal.

¶ 2 Patrick Reddell and Derek Johnson, both eighteen years old, agreed to participate in a BB gun war. The rules were that no shots should be aimed above...

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