Wieman v. Updegraff

This is an action brought by the plaintiff, Paul W. Updegraff, a taxpayer, to enjoin the defendants, Board of Regents of the Agricultural Colleges, the State Treasurer, and the State Auditor, from paying public funds to teachers, in the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater, who had not subscribed to and filed the loyalty oath prescribed in 51 O.S.1951 §§ 37.1 to 37.8 inc. Robert M. Wieman, Nancy Kent Ziebur, Werner C. Baum, Samuel Hunt Lee, Jr., Malcolm Correll, and Luella Nietz, the teachers affected, were permitted to intervene. The judgment of the trial court, granting the…