Holt v. Childers

The legislative attempt at appropriation, House Bill 518, 20th Oklahoma Legislature, 74 S.L. 1945, ch. 1, p. 376, should be cured of its obvious infirmities.

Pending prior litigation involving the lump sum purported and adjudged to be appropriated, the Governor made eleven allocations from the fund. They were stricken down, Wells v. Childers, 196 Okla. 353, 165 P. 2d 371, as being unconstitutional. By a bare majority of the Supreme Court the lump sum appropriation had been sustained. Wells v. Childers, 196 Okla. 339, 165 P. 2d 358.

The court is now confronted with a claim filed by Norman C.…