# Goodin v. Board of Education of Independent School District No. 14

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · June 12, 1979 · 601 P.2d 88

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5155115

## Case

- **Full name:** Ben GOODIN, Treasurer of LeFlore County, Oklahoma, Board of Education of Independent School District No. 3 of LeFlore County, Oklahoma, Charles Wilson, Charlene Holt, Harold Meeh, Dan Kelly and Barton Bates, in their official capacity as Board Members of said school district, Board of Education of Independent School District No. 16 of LeFlore County, Oklahoma, James Ward, Don Green, Carl Raines, Harold Brown and H. R. Steelman, in their official capacity as Board Members of said school district, Board of Education of Independent School District No. 62 of LeFlore County, Oklahoma, Kenneth Rose, S. A. Ritter, Ernest Putman, James Smalling and L. D. Holt, in their official capacity as Board Members of said school district, Board of Education of Independent School District No. 52 of LeFlore County, Oklahoma, Bill Morgan, Paul Massey, Donald Moon, Frank McCauley and David Reddick, in their official capacity as Board Members of said school district, Board of Education of Independent School District No. 14 of LeFlore County, Oklahoma, and C. L. Wickware, Theo Kelly, Jr., and Clyde Steelman, Jr., in their official capacity as Board Members of said school district v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 14 OF McCURTAIN COUNTY, Oklahoma, and Lester Ray Wilson, Henry Bruce, Leon Bohanon, Melvin Williams and Edgel Phillips, in their official capacity as Board Members of said school district
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** June 12, 1979
- **Citations:** 601 P.2d 88; 1979 OK 87; 1979 Okla. LEXIS 296
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Irwin
- **Judges:** Barnes, Doolin, Hargrave, Hodges, Irwin, Lavender, Opala, Simms, Williams
- **Cited by:** 6 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

IRWIN, Vice Chief Justice,
dissenting.
In my opinion, the Smithville School District (appellant) is entitled to a proportionate share of the Forest Reserve rental moneys based only upon the student population from LeFlore County. I find no basis for apportionment based upon any student population from McCurtain County. If appellant is entitled to apportionment based upon the student population of both counties, it would also be entitled to an apportionment from both counties if the Smith-ville School District were contiguous to a Forest Reserve in McCurtain County. Surely the Legislature did not intend this result and the enactment should not be so construed. 1
*92 The opinion of the Attorney General does not disclose whether the school districts were located in one or more counties.
I respectfully dissent.
I am authorized to state that Justices HARGRAVE and OPALA concur in the views herein expressed.
. In Protest of Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co., 137 Okl. 186 , 279 P. 319 (1929) we held: .
“Legislative intent must govern in construction of statutes; entire act must be considered, together with other enactments on same subject, in determining legislative intent; words of statutes may be modified, altered, or supplied, to give statute force and effect which Legislature intended.
Courts are bound to presume that Legislature did not intend absurd consequences in accordance with literal meaning of statute; courts are bound to adopt construction of statute which will promote ends of justice and avoid absurdity.”

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