GOODIN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION, ETC.

No. 51596.

601 P.2d 88 (1979)

Ben GOODIN, Treasurer of LeFlore County, Oklahoma, Board of Education of Independent School District No. 3 of LeFlore County, Oklahoma, Charles Wilson, Charlene Holt, Harold Meeh, Dan Kelly and Barton Bates, in their official capacity as Board Members of said school district, Board of Education of Independent School District No. 16 of LeFlore County, Oklahoma, James Ward, Don Green, Carl Raines, Harold Brown and H.R. Steelman, in their official capacity as Board Members of said school district, Board of Education of Independent School District No. 62 of LeFlore County, Oklahoma, Kenneth Rose, S.A. Ritter, Ernest Putman, James Smalling and L.D. Holt, in their official capacity as Board Members of said school district, Board of Education of Independent School District No. 52 of LeFlore County, Oklahoma, Bill Morgan, Paul Massey, Donald Moon, Frank McCauley and David Reddick, in their official capacity as Board Members of said school district, Board of Education of Independent School District No. 14 of LeFlore County, Oklahoma, and C.L. Wickware, Theo Kelly, Jr., and Clyde Steelman, Jr., in their official capacity as Board Members of said school district, Appellees, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 14 OF McCURTAIN COUNTY, Oklahoma, and Lester Ray Wilson, Henry Bruce, Leon Bohanon, Melvin Williams and Edgel Phillips, in their official capacity as Board Members of said school district, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied October 29, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry Amend, Dist. Atty., Poteau, for appellee, Ben Goodin.

Hamilton & McBee by James E. Hamilton, Poteau, for appellees, LeFlore County School Districts.

McClendon & McClendon by Jim McClendon, Broken Bow, for appellants.


HODGES, Justice.

The question presented is: when a school district which is not contiguous to a federal reserve is annexed to schools which are contiguous to the forest reserve, may the statutory rentals be apportioned to the annexing school district based on the total scholastic population of both former districts, or should the combined districts be denied a proportionate share of the rentals because the annexing school...

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