Speaker v. Board of County Commissioners

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

This appeal involves efforts to incorporate a certain area of Oklahoma County ■as a town to be known as: “Valley Brook.”

The procedure prescribed by statute for such an incorporation contemplates that it be accomplished only after the majority of qualified voters of the territory to be incorporated, have approved it at an election, or “meeting” called by the Board of County Commissioners. See Tit. 11 O.S. 1951, § 971 et seq. The cited law provides, among other things, that, in order to obtain the Board’s calling of such an election, the applicants, or proponents of the…