ISAACS v. OKLAHOMA CITY

Nos. 41276, 41527.

437 P.2d 229 (1966)

Roy ISAACS for himself and others similarly situated, Plaintiff in Error, v. OKLAHOMA CITY, a Municipal Corporation, Urban Renewal Authority, Granville Tomerlin, Chairman, F.D. Moon, Vice-Chairman, C. Kenneth Woodard, Secretary, Reuben G. Martin, Member, Ralph L. Boien, Member, James T. Yeilding, Executive Director, Defendants in Error. S.M. ROOF, Loal C. Wilson and J.V. Garrett, Plaintiffs in Error, v. TULSA URBAN RENEWAL AUTHORITY, a purported public body corporate, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and its Officers and Members, Leeman Nix, Chairman, Robert Laird, Vice-Chairman, Murray McCune, Member, Paul Chapman, Executive Director and Secretary, and the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a Municipal Corporation, Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearings Denied March 21, 1967.

Second Rehearing Denied April 17, 1967.

Certiorari Denied October 9, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sid White, Oklahoma City, and Ted R. Fisher, of Johnson & Fisher, Tulsa, for plaintiffs in error.

Roy H. Semtner, Horace Thompson, Oklahoma City, for defendant in error City of Oklahoma City.

V.P. Crowe and Paul R. McDaniel, of Crowe, Boxley, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford & Johnson, and Coleman Hayes and Russell F. Thompson, of Monnet, Hayes, Bullis, Grubb & Thompson, and J. Dan Batchelor, Oklahoma City, for defendant in error, Urban Renewal Authority.

Smith & Brown, and Chas. E. Norman, by Finis Smith, Tulsa, for defendants in error, Tulsa Urban Renewal Authority.

T. Murray Robinson and Wm. N. Christian, of Robinson, Robertson & Barnes, Oklahoma City, for S.D. Rorem, amici curiae.


Certiorari Denied October 9, 1967. See 88 S.Ct. 63.

HALLEY, Chief Justice.

There are two cases involved here, which because of the similarity of issues, have, by our order of November 10, 1966, been consolidated for decision.

The first case is an appeal from the judgment of the District Court of Oklahoma County in sustaining a demurrer to the petition of Roy Isaacs, plaintiff in error here, who, for himself...

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