HUMPHREY v. DENNEY

Nos. 61308, 61309.

757 P.2d 833 (1988)

Robert L. HUMPHREY and John Lawrence, Members of the Excise Board of Carter County, Oklahoma; Huss Standifer, Jim Godwin and Ronnie Young, Chairman and Commissioners of Carter County, Oklahoma; and Carter County, Oklahoma, Appellants, v. W. Robert DENNEY, Sheriff of Carter County, Oklahoma, and Billie Williams, Clerk of the District Court of Carter County, Oklahoma, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

June 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Harlan, Sapulpa, for appellants.

Burke G. Mordy, Ardmore, for appellees.

Ronald E. Worthen, Dist. Atty., Robert M. Highsmith, Asst. Dist. Atty., Carter County, for amicus curiae.


SIMMS, Justice:

Appeal from the grant of a writ of mandamus below, commanding the appellants, Excise Board of Carter County and Board of County Commissioners to review the estimate of needs and budget requests of the Appellees, Sheriff of Carter County and District Court Clerk, and to approve them as submitted if said estimates of need were within the county's revenue. The facts are undisputed.

The appellees submitted...

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