BOARD OF EDUCATION OF DEPENDENT SCH., ETC. v. ALLEN

No. 55453.

615 P.2d 1009 (1980)

BOARD OF EDUCATION OF DEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 23 OSAGE COUNTY, Oklahoma, a/k/a Indian Camp School, Appellant, v. T.E. ALLEN, County Superintendent of Schools, Osage County, Oklahoma, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected August 15, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jernigan, Groves, Bleakley & Tague by Eric J. Groves, Oklahoma City, Bill Hall, Pawhuska, for appellant.

Larry Stuart, Pawhuska, for appellee.


OPALA, Justice:

This contest over the sufficiency of a petition to abolish a school district presents a controversy over two unsettled dimensions. One of these mathematically uncertain dimensions is the size of the "electorate" applicable by law to the school district in question. The other dimension — legislatively set as equal to 60 per cent of the electorate we must yet define — is the numerical and legal sufficiency of the signatures counted as valid...

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