MORTON v. ADAIR COUNTY EXCISE BD.

No. 72181.

780 P.2d 707 (1989)

Mary MORTON and Carrie Philpott, Appellants, v. The ADAIR COUNTY EXCISE BOARD and The Adair County Commissioners, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

September 19, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary R. Buckles, Asst. Dist. Atty., LeFlore County, Poteau, for appellants.

Gerald Hunter, Dist. Atty. and D.K. Cunningham, Asst. Dist. Atty., Sequoyah County, Sallisaw, for appellees.

Robert H. Henry, Atty. Gen. and Thomas L. Spencer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Oklahoma City, for State Election Bd. as amicus curiae.


OPALA, Vice Chief Justice.

The dispositive question is whether, in the process of reducing county office budgets to meet revenue shortfall, preference for funding should be given to a statutorily mandated position of county election board's chief clerk, whose specific duties no one else is required or permitted to perform, over the county purchasing agent, whose responsibilities, when no one holds that job, must, by...

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