Arterburn v. Summers

BERRY, Justice.

The plaintiffs in error will be referred to herein as “protestants” and the defendant in error as “respondent”.

On June 6, 1961, a petition was presented to respondent in his capacity as County Superintendent of Schools of Tulsa County, Oklahoma. The petition purportedly bore the signatures of a majority of the electors of East Central Independent School District No. 12 of Tulsa County, hereafter referred to as “East Central”, and, in effect, represented a request on the part of those signing the petition that respondent cause an election to be called in order to submit the…