Isbell v. State ex rel. Retirement & Pension Board of the Department of Public Safety

BARNES, Justice:

In this case, we are called upon to determine the correctness of the trial court’s dismissal of an action as not having been filed within the time allowed by law.

The action in the trial court was an appeal from a final order of The Retirement and Pension Board of the Department of Public Safety of the State of Oklahoma. The final order of the Board was rendered on September 4, 1973.

The appeal from that order was filed on November 2nd of the same year, more than thirty days after the issuance of the Board’s final order. As the appeal in the trial court progressed, the Board…