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Protest of Blaine

Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Jan 27, 1931
300 P. 377 (Okla. 1931)

Opinion

No. 20229

Opinion Filed January 27, 1931.

(Syllabus.)

Municipal Corporations — Taxation — Case Followed.

Under stipulation of parties, the decision of this court in the case of J.R. Jones, County Treasurer of Okmulgee County, v. Chas. Blaine, No. 20026, 149 Okla. 153, 300 P. 369, is determinative of the issues in this case, and the rules of law therein announced, in so far as they are applicable herein, are announced as the law of this case.

Error from Court of Tax Review; T.G. Chambers, Hal Johnson, and Harve L. Melton, Judges.

In the matter of the protest of Charles Blaine et al. against certain tax levies made by the Excise Board of Okmulgee County. From the judgment, protestants appeal. Affirmed.

A.N. Boatman and L.L. Cowley, for protestee.

Stone, Moon Stewart, for protestants.


This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Tax Review denying the protest of Charles Blaine et al. against alleged illegal and excessive tax levies for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1928, made by the county excise board of Okmulgee county. The protestants appeal. The appeal involves a library levy made under the provisions of chapter 7, S. L. 1927, and a sinking fund levy.

The parties herein have stipulated that the issues in this cause shall be submitted to this court for its consideration on the briefs filed in this court in the case of J.R. Jones, County Treasurer of Okmulgee County, v. Charles Blaine, No. 20026, 149 Okla. 153, 300 P. 369.

Under the decision of this court in that cause, this day decided, the questioned levies are valid. The judgment of the Court of Tax Review, therefore, is affirmed.

CLARK, V. C. J., and RILEY, HEFNER, CULLISON, SWINDALL, and McNEILL, JJ., concur. LESTER, C. J., and LANGLEY, J., absent.


Summaries of

Protest of Blaine

Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Jan 27, 1931
300 P. 377 (Okla. 1931)
Case details for

Protest of Blaine

Case Details

Full title:Protest of BLAINE et al

Court:Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Date published: Jan 27, 1931

Citations

300 P. 377 (Okla. 1931)
149 Okla. 161