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Board of Education of Dependent School District No. 23 Osage County v. Allen

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided August 7, 1980No. 55453Published

1Opinion of the Court

OP ALA, Justice:

This contest over the sufficiency of a petition to abolish a school district presents a controversy over two unsettled dimensions. One of these mathematically uncertain dimensions is the size of the “electorate” applicable by law to the school district in question. The other dimension — legislatively set as equal to 60 per cent of the electorate we must yet define — is the numerical and legal sufficiency of the signatures counted as valid.

At the very first we are called upon to ascertain the number of persons who are eligible electors in the affected school district. To…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. In Re Initiative Petition No. 142, State Question No. 205Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1936
  2. Community Gas and Service Company v. WalbaumSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1965
  3. Halgren v. Welling, SEC. of StateUtah Supreme Court · 1936
  4. Ahrens v. KerbyArizona Supreme Court · 1934
  5. In Re Initiative Petition No. 2Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1935

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