STATE EX REL. TRIMBLE v. CITY OF MOORE

Nos. 71423, 71422.

818 P.2d 889 (1991)

STATE of Oklahoma, ex rel. William J. TRIMBLE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The CITY OF MOORE, Oklahoma, a municipal corporation, Defendant, and Louis Kindrick, Dudley Freeman, Don Black, Willie Edwards, Robert W. Swanagon, Odell Morgan and Charles Thompson, Defendants-Appellees. STATE of Oklahoma, ex rel. William J. TRIMBLE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The CITY OF MOORE, Oklahoma, a municipal corporation, and Louis Kindrick, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

October 1, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. "Bill" Pipkin, Moore, for appellant Trimble in Nos. 71,422 & 71,423.

Margaret McMorrow-Love, Greg A. Castro, Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens, Lee Slater, Oklahoma City, and David A. Poarch, Norman, for appellees Morgan and Thompson in No. 71,423.

Margaret McMorrow-Love, Greg A. Castro, Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens, Charles J. Watts, Looney, Nichols, Johnson & Hayes, John W. Coyle III, William B. Federman, Day, Hewitt & Timmons, Oklahoma City, Rebecca J. Patten, Patten & Patten, Norman, and Thaddeus Freeman, Arlington, for appellees Kindrick, Freeman, Black, Edwards and Swanagon in No. 71,423.

Margaret McMorrow-Love, Eric S. Eissenstat, Greg A. Castro, Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens, and John W. Coyle III, Oklahoma City, for appellee Kindrick in No. 71,422.

Jim T. Priest, Edward D. Hasbrook, McKinney, Stringer & Webster, P.C., Oklahoma City, for appellee City of Moore in No. 71,422.


OPALA, Chief Justice.

The dispositive issue in these two taxpayer qui tam1 actions is whether city officials violated the law in disbursing the funds in question. In No. 71,423 the questions tendered are: [1] Did the plaintiff timely bring an appeal from the dismissal of the qui tam action as to two defendants (city personnel board members)? [2] Should this appeal be dismissed because...

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