The statute of limitation under 12 O.S. § 95 requires that a lawsuit for breach of contract must be brought within five years if the claim arises from a written contract and within three years if the dispute comes from a contract not reduced to writing.  The time in which to file the lawsuit starts at the completion of the contract.  In the case of Kirby v. Jean’s Plumbing Heat & Air, 2009 OK 65, the contract for installation of a new sewage pipeline was completed in 1996.  The homeowner did not file his breach of contract suit until eleven years later in 2007.  The statute of limitations had clearly expired and Oklahoma declined to apply the "discovery rule" to suits based upon breach of contract in construction cases. 

One reason for the court’s refusal to extend the "discovery rule" to construction cases is that to do so would defeat the intention of the legislature with the statute of repose.  The court, in upholding the intention of the legislature, has determined there should be some outside limit on when a lawsuit can be brought regardless of the circumstances.