Cope v. Childers

3 Citing cases

  1. Veterans of Foreign Wars v. Childers

    197 Okla. 331 (Okla. 1946)   Cited 49 times
    In Veterans, there was a legislative appropriation directed to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a private agency, for assistance to war veterans and their families in obtaining benefits of federal and state legislation enacted in their behalf, free of any control or management of or by any officer or agency of the state.

    Poor relations of the majority per curiam opinion are mentioned. Some of these are Murrow Indian Orphans Home v. Childers, 197 Okla. 249, 171 P.2d 600; Children's Home and Welfare Ass'n v. Childers, 197 Okla. 243, 171 P.2d 613; Cope v. Childers, 197 Okla. 176, 170 P.2d 210; Holt v. Childers, 196 Okla. 4, 168 P.2d 890; Wells v. Childers, 196 Okla. 353, 165 P.2d 371. By the present majority view, in which reference is made to many well-founded decisions, the scrutiny should not be diverted from maladministration by which public monies are extracted from the treasury by a false administration to individuals, associations, corporations and sectarian institutions under the guise of allocations and the existence of contract, in lieu of legislative appropriations.

  2. Childrens Home Welfare v. Childers

    197 Okla. 243 (Okla. 1946)   Cited 21 times
    Holding a contract between the State and a children's home to care for orphaned children did not violate Art. 10, ยง 15, because the payment of appropriated funds was in return for services the State had a duty to provide

    as this court well knows. Cope v. Childers, 197 Okla. 176, 170 P.2d 210. The arresting of administrative proceedings for the allocation and expenditure of public funds and the establishment that the expenditure is for purposes devoid of all public interest is well nigh an impossible judicial task.

  3. Murrow Indian Orphans Home v. Childers

    197 Okla. 249 (Okla. 1946)   Cited 23 times
    In Murrow, the Court held that state funds paid to a sectarian institution in exchange for the housing and care of orphans discharged the State's duty to provide for needy children and did not violate Article 2, Section 5 of the Oklahoma Constitution.

    These inalienable rights within and without America are by statute and decisions and administrators being, every day, more and more regulated, restricted, and defined, and power and authority in and out of government is being more consolidated and fused. The West Virginia State Board of Education v. Walter Barnett, et al., supra.; Cope v. Childers, 197 Okla. 176, 170 P.2d 210. Roger Williams lived in times when Church and State were united in Europe and America, which meant that control of things spiritual and political was united in one authority, wherefore it mattered not whether the evil of dual control was in fact, exercised by the Church or State.