Case ID: okla_122/html/0116-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PHELPS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SCHOOL DIST. NO. 68 of BRYAN COUNTY v. BOARD OF COM’RS of BRYAN COUNTY et al.
    No. 17413
    — Opinion Filed July 27, 1926.
    Rehearing Denied Dec. 21, 1926.
    Appeal from District Court, Bryan County ; Porter Newman, Judge.
    Action by School District No. 68, Bryan County, against the Board of County Commissioners of Bryan County and J. A. Moore, County Treasurer of Bryan County. Judgment ior defendants, and plaintiff brings error.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Hatchett & Ferguson, for plaintiff in error.
    Lazelle White, Assistant County Attorney, for defendants in error.
   PHELPS, J.

This cause comes here mi appeal from the district court of Bryan county, and the question involved is the proper distribution of the state school funds coming into the hands of the county treasurer for the benefit of the public schools. It is presented upon an agreed statement of facts, which are substantially the same facts presented in cause No. 16589, Board of County Commissioners v. School District No. 19, Carter County, opinion filed June 1, 1926, 119 Okla. 20, 248 Pac. 324, with the exception that ¡in that case the funds in dispute were the school funds coining into the hands of the county treasurer from the gross production tax, buf the law applicable lo that case is equally applicable to (he case at bar, and upon tlie authority of that case the judgment of the district court of Bryan county is reversed, and the cause remanded, with instructions to the trial court to render judgment for the plaintiff.

All the Justices concur.