SARKEYS v. INDEPENDENT SCH. DIST. NO. 40, ETC.

No. 53322.

592 P.2d 529 (1979)

S. J. SARKEYS, Jr., Deceased, and Kenneth A. Sarkeys, Non-Intervening Visitor [Appellant], v. INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT # 40, CLEVELAND COUNTY, Oklahoma, for itself and for all other members of that class constituting beneficiaries of the Sarkeys Foundation, and Sarkeys, Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation, Sarkeys Foundation, an Oklahoma Charitable Corporation, Sabine Corp., a Louisiana Corporation, Verlan W. Harrell, Bill Edwards, Bobby D. Armstrong, Dan Savage, A.R. McCurley, Emmett M. Charles and Thomas F. McIntyre, Appellees, State of Oklahoma, ex rel. Larry Derryberry, Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

March 23, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jopling, Blankenship & McKee by William A. Berry and G.T. Blankenship, Oklahoma City, and Spradling, Stagner, Alpern, Friot & Jones by Delmer L. Stagner, Oklahoma City, for non-intervening visitor [appellant].

Pierce, Couch & Hendrickson, Oklahoma City, and Terry G. Shipley, Noble, and Philip Warren Redwine, Norman by John R. Couch, Oklahoma City, for appellee, Independent School Dist. #40, Cleveland County, Oklahoma.

Crowe, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford, Johnson & Burdick, Oklahoma City, for appellees, Sarkeys, Inc. and Sabine Corp.

Watson, McKenzie & Moricoli by Gregory L. Mahaffey, Oklahoma City, for appellee, Sarkeys, Inc.

Ben L. Burdick, and Gary A. Bryant, Oklahoma City, for appellee, Sabine Corp.

Lee B. Thompson, Oklahoma City, and Doerner, Stuart, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, Tulsa, by Lee B. Thompson, Oklahoma City, for appellee, Verlan W. Harrell.

Kerr, Davis, Irvine, Krasnow, Rhodes & Semtner, and Francis S. Irvine, Oklahoma City, and Monnet, Hayes, Bullis & Edwards, and John T. Edwards, Oklahoma City, and Lucas & Cate and Lee Cate, Norman, Benedum, Benedum & English and T.R. Benedum, Norman, and Stipe, Gossett, Stipe & Harper, and Gene Stipe, McAlester, by T.R. Benedum, Norman, for appellees, Bill Edwards, Bobby D. Armstrong, Dan Savage, A.R. McCurley and Emmett M. Charles.

Castleberry, Lisle & Kivel and Gene A. Castleberry, Oklahoma City, for appellee, Thomas F. McIntyre.

William C. Anderson, Tulsa, for appellees, Robert S. Rizley, Trustee of Sarkeys Foundation, and Finis A. Crutchfield, Trustee of Sarkeys Foundation and Verlan W. Harrell.

Luttrell, Pendarvis & Rawlinson by Robert L. Pendarvis, Norman, for appellee, Philip C. Kidd, Trustee of Sarkeys Foundation.

John H. Patten, Norman, for appellees, Jack Patten, Charles Nesbitt, Smith Hester, Stanton Young and Frank Seay, Co-Receivers of Sarkeys Foundation.

Turner, Turner, & Green by Charles C. Green, Oklahoma City, for appellees, Dewayne Pitt, Reese Booker, L.M. Nelson, Max W. Barnes, G. Lyndell Buck, Ruth Ann Harris Edwards, Dewight Mitchell, Jerry Hines, Michael Hopkins, Flora Latshaw, Debbie Ogle Davis, Noami Snowden, Ben Gray, Allen Wilwhite, John Thomas, Richard Veal, Harry Goeble and the Sarkeys, Inc., Profit Sharing Trust.


HODGES, Justice.

An appeal was lodged by S.J. Sarkeys, Jr. and Kenneth A. Sarkeys, non-intervening parties appearing as purported visitors, "appellants," the lineal descendants of S.A. Sarkeys, the founder of Sarkeys Foundation, a charitable corporation,1 from the judgment of the District Court approving the settlement of the case in the trial court by the parties of record, and the Attorney General...

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