Wilhite v. Mansfield
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Application of E. S. Wilhite for a writ of mandamus to M. R. Mansfield and others. Writ awarded. On the 7th day of August, A. D. 1908, the plaintiff, E. S. Wilhite, of Alfalfa county, for himself and all other resident taxpayers similarly situated, instituted this action for peremptory mandamus to compel M. R. Mansfield, John Zimmerman, and J. C McWilliams, as the board of county commissioners of Alfalfa county, to appoint trustees for what is alleged to be the high school…
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Application of E. S. Wilhite for a writ of mandamus to M. R. Mansfield and others. Writ awarded. On the 7th day of August, A. D. 1908, the plaintiff, E. S. Wilhite, of Alfalfa county, for himself and all other resident taxpayers similarly situated, instituted this action for peremptory mandamus to compel M. R. Mansfield, John Zimmerman, and J. C McWilliams, as the board of county commissioners of Alfalfa county, to appoint trustees for what is alleged to be the high school of Alfalfa county, situated at Helena therein. He alleges that ever since the 16th day of November, A. D. 1907, he has…
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, J.
(after stating the facts as above). The act of the Legislature of the territory of Oklahoma, approved March 8, 1901 (Sess. Laws 1901, p. 187, c. 28, art. 1 [Wilson’s Rev. & Ann. St. 1903, §§ 6219-6223]), provides that each county in the territory of Oklahoma having a population of 6,000 inhabitants or over may establish a high school, the same to be located at a place in such county to be determined by the voters thereof; that the county commissioners shall appoint trustees for such high school, and that the superintendent of such county shall be ex officio president of such board of…
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