Case ID: colo_136/html/0482-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 18,119.
    City and County of Denver, et al. v. Denver Buick, Inc., et al.
    (319 P. [2d] 490)
    Decided December 16, 1957.
    Rehearing denied January 13, 1958.
    Mr. John C. Banks, Mr. Earl T. Thrasher, Mr. Hans W. Johnson, for plaintiffs in error.
    
      Mr. Theodore Epstein, Messrs. Creamer & Creamer, for defendants in error Denver Buick, Inc., Lou Cohan, Mollie Cohan and Saleo Corporation.
    Messrs. Grant, Shafroth & Toll, for defendant in error Rainbo Bread Company.
    Mr. Dayton Denious, Mr. Omer Griffin, for defendants in error Weaver-Beatty Motor Company and Roy J: Weaver.
    
      En Banc.
    
   Mr. Justice Sutton

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The judgment sought to be reversed held Zoning Ordinance No. 16, Series 1955, of the City of Denver void. It now abundantly appears from the record, plaintiff in error’s brief and statement of counsel for plaintiff in error, made before this court at the time of oral argument, that. Ordinance No. 16, Series of. 1955, has been replaced in its entirety by Ordinance No. 392, Series 1956, and that Ordinance No. 16 is no longer in force or effect.

Several matters are urged for reversal, only two of which we would deem pertinent if the case were not moot. They are: Is a declaratory judgment action the proper form of action to challenge the ordinance, and, was the public notice given adequate and valid?

Because the defendants in error were successful below and a new ordinance has since been passed to replace the challenged one, the questions presented are moot. See Cliff v. Bilett, 125 Colo. 138, 241 P. (2d) 437, and Bd. of Adjustment v. Iwerkes, 135 Colo. 578, 316 P. (2d) 573. We therefore refrain from passing on the matters presented.

The writ of error is dismissed.