STATE v. FORD

No. 42222.

434 P.2d 934 (1967)

STATE of Oklahoma ex rel. Charles NESBITT, Attorney General, Petitioner, v. Henry FORD, Roy Smith, and Eugene D. Dozier, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

September 19, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Nesbitt, Atty. Gen., Joseph C. Muskrat, William Penn Lerblance, Asst. Attys. Gen., for petitioner.

David Hall, County Atty., William H. Means, Asst. County Atty., for respondent County Assessor of Tulsa County, Oklahoma.

Curtis P. Harris, County Atty., Granville Scanland, Asst. County Atty., for respondent County Assessor of Oklahoma County, Okla.

Eugene Dozier, County Assessor of Canadian County, pro se.

Crowe, Boxley, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford & Johnson, McClelland, Collins, Sheehan, Bailey, Bailey & Short, James B. White, Mark Meister, Robinson, Robertson & Barnes, Oklahoma City, amici curiae.


JACKSON, Chief Justice.

In 1957, 1963, and 1964, the Attorney General of this State wrote official opinions wherein he expressed doubt as to the constitutional validity of some of the tax exemptions contained in 11 O.S. 1951 (1961) Sec. 481. He concluded, however, that since Section 481 had been treated as constitutional by interested officials for a period of fifty years that it should continue to be treated as constitutional...

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