Excise Board v. Board of Ed., City of Tulsa, School Dist. No. 22

This is an appeal from an order of the district court of Tulsa county granting a writ of mandamus requiring the excise board of that county to allocate or apportion the limit of ad valorem tax levy under the provisions of the 1933 amendment to section 9, article 10, of the Constitution. The trial court ordered the excise hoard to so adjust its order of allocation that the limits allowed to Tulsa county, the Tulsa school district, and the city of Tulsa would equal a total of 15 mills, and the excise board has appealed from such order.

The material facts are that on August 3, 1936, the excise…