Case ID: okla_40/html/0741-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "KANE, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McCULLOUGH et al. v. GILCREASE.
    No. 3725.
    Opinion Filed May 26, 1914.
    APPEAL AND EREOR — Dismissal—Hypothetical Question. Abstract or hypothetical cases, disconnected from the granting of actual relief, or from the determination of which no particular result can follow other than the awarding of the costs of the appeal, will not be decided by this court.
    (Syllabus by the Court.)
    
      Error from District Court, Tulsa County;
    
    
      L. M. Poe, Judge.
    
    
      Action between G. R. McCullough ánd others and Thomas Gilcrease. From the judgment, the parties first named bring error.
    Dismissed.
    
      Stuart, Cruce & Gilbert and Martin, Bush & Murray, for plaintiffs in error.
    
      Biddison & Campbell and Preston C. West, for defendant in error.
   KANE, C. J.

This cause comes on to be heard upon a motion to dismiss in support of which there is an uncontradicted showing to the effect that the appeal in this cause now involves only a moot question of law, and that no good purpose can now be served by hearing or proceeding further with the appeal herein. Upon the showing made the appeal must be dismissed. It has many times been held that:

“Abstract or hypothetical cases, disconnected from the granting of actual relief, or from the determination of which no particular result can follow other than the awarding of the costs-of the appeal, will not be decided by this court.” (Bryan v. Sullivan, 29 Okla. 686, 119 Pac. 124.)

The motion to dismiss is therefore sustained.

All the Justices concur.