As Chief Justice of the 10th Circuit, he wrote in 1966 in Robinson v. Transamerica, "The administration of the rules lies necessarily within the province of the trial court with power to fashion such orders as may be deemed proper to vouchsafe full discovery for the just, speedy and inexpensive determination of the lawsuit."  
Born in 1904 outside of Tishomingo, Oklahoma, he served 30 years on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.  As Chief Justice of the 10th Circuit, he wrote in 1966 in Robinson v. Transamerica, "The administration of the rules lies necessarily within the province of the trial court with power to fashion such orders as may be deemed proper to vouchsafe full discovery for the just, speedy and inexpensive determination of the lawsuit."  He died in 1975, and was forgotten for twenty years.  FTP identify this jurist for whom the Oklahoma City federal office building had been named.
Born in 1904 outside of Tishomingo, Oklahoma, he served 30 years on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.  
Alfred P. Murrah