SPEAKER v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

No. 37346.

312 P.2d 438 (1957)

Margueritte SPEAKER, Plaintiff in Error, v. The BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, Oklahoma, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied June 11, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merson & Campbell, Clay M. Roper, Oklahoma City, for plaintiff in error.

James W. (Bill) Berry, County Atty. of Oklahoma County, M.M. Thomas, Asst. County Atty., Shapard & McConnell, Oklahoma City, of counsel, for defendant in error.


BLACKBIRD, Justice.

This appeal involves efforts to incorporate a certain area of Oklahoma County as a town to be known as: "Valley Brook."

The procedure prescribed by statute for such an incorporation contemplates that it be accomplished only after the majority of qualified voters of the territory to be incorporated, have approved it at an election, or "meeting" called by the Board of County Commissioners. See Tit...

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