In re REFERENDUM PETITION NO. 55 STATE QUESTION NO. 164.

In re REFERENDUM PETITION NO. 55 STATE QUESTION NO. 164.
1932 OK 620
14 P.2d 1119
159 Okla. 218
Case Number: 23436
Decided: 09/17/1932
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

In re REFERENDUM PETITION NO. 55, STATE QUESTION NO. 164.

Syllabus

PER CURIAM.

¶1 This cause coming on for consideration upon the report of the referee and upon the motion of the petitioners to confirm said report, and the matter being presented by counsel, in open court, and the court being advised that the report of the referee has been made and deposited with the Chief Justice and that a copy thereof has been furnished to counsel for petitioners and protestant.

¶2 It is admitted in open court that the controverted questions of law upon which conclusions of law are made by the referee are not controlling and that the decisive questions are questions of fact only, and it being further admitted in open court that there is sufficient evidence to support the findings of fact made by the referee, it follows that this court should approve the report of the referee without further delay.

¶3 The report of the referee is in all things approved and adopted by the court as the findings of fact by this court, and is ordered filed by the clerk.

¶4 It further appearing that the referee has found the referendum petition to be sufficient and in conformity to law, and that it contains 50,659 valid signatures, and that only 25,572 valid signatures are required, the sufficiency of the referendum petition here involved is in all things sustained by the court.