# Bellmon v. Albert

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · June 25, 1982 · 648 P.2d 1207

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5157901

## Case

- **Full name:** In re INITIATIVE PETITION NO. 317, STATE QUESTION NO. 556, Henry BELLMON, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, and Edward L. Gaylord, Proponents v. Carl ALBERT, Larry Derryberry, Ed Edmondson, Robert S. Kerr, Jr., and Clem McSpadden, Protestants
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** June 25, 1982
- **Citations:** 648 P.2d 1207; 1982 OK 78; 1982 Okla. LEXIS 339
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Barnes
- **Judges:** Ala, Barnes, Doolin, Hargrave, Hodges, Irwin, Lavender, Opala, Simms, Wilson
- **Cited by:** 5 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

BARNES, Vice Chief Justice,
dissenting.
I concur in the dissent of Justice Simms, but I dissent for the further reason that I do not believe that the Referee’s Report is comprehensive enough to allow me to properly evaluate it. I would ask the Referee for a supplemental report setting out his reasons for admitting some signatures in a particular category while excluding others. As pointed out in the Protestants’ Motion for Order Requiring Supplemental Referee’s Report, it does not indicate which 10,-579 of the 16,227 names challenged were invalid, nor why certain names were valid and others were not. Before I can make a final decision on the sufficiency of the signatures I need to know the criteria used by the referee to disqualify names on the petition for non-registration.

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