Legal Opinion
Cummings v. Board of Education
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided April 21, 1942No. 29509PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDavison, J.
This is an action to recover compensatory damages and penalty by reason of the wrongful expenditure of school district funds pursuant to a contract tainted with fraud at its inception.
The amount expended was $73,710. The disbursement was made by warrant on November 13, 1936. This action was instituted on December 23, 1938 (more than two years later) by the board of education of the city of Oklahoma City (hereinafter referred to as the board or school district), as plaintiff, against D. R. Cummings and Ed W. Spivey, as defendants.
The cause was tried to the court without the intervention of a…
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