CALLENDER v. DISTRICT COURT, ETC.

No. 56044.

625 P.2d 627 (1981)

Hollis CALLENDER, County Commissioner of Carter County, Oklahoma, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT COURT FOR the TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, ARDMORE, CARTER COUNTY, State of Oklahoma and Woodrow George, Judge of the District Court for the Twentieth Judicial District, Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied March 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ted J. Pasley, Wallace, Bickford, Pasley & Farabough, Ardmore, for petitioner.

Jan Eric Cartwright, Atty. Gen., David W. Lee, Timothy S. Frets, Asst. Attys. Gen., Oklahoma City, for respondents.


SIMMS, Justice:

Petitioner, Callender, seeks to invoke the original jurisdiction of this Court and prays for a writ of prohibition to prevent the District Court of Carter County from proceeding further in a civil action, in the nature of quo warranto brought by the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma against Callender to try title to the office of County Commissioner which he holds.

The Attorney General alleged...

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