Case ID: cal-unrep_7/html/0158-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PORCO v. STATE BOARD OF BARBER EXAMINERS.
    S. F. No. 3259;
    June 24, 1903.
    73 Pac. 168.
    License—Mandamus to Issue.—Where an Action was Brought against the State Board of Barber Examiners to compel the issuance of a license to plaintiff, and during the pendency of the suit the act creating such board was repealed, and no successor in interest or obligation was provided for, the action abated.
    APPEAL from Superior Court, Napa County; E. D. Ham, Judge.
    Mandamus by John Poreo against the State Board of Barber Examiners. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals.
    Dismissed.
    Tirey L. Ford, attorney general, George A. Sturtevant, deputy attorney general, and R. C. Van Fleet for appellant; George E. Caldwell for respondent.
   SMITH, C.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a suit for mandamus, requiring the defendant to issue to plaintiff a barber’s license, as required by act of February 20, 1901, “To regulate the practice of barbering,” etc.: Stats. 1901, p. 15, c. 25. But the act in question has been repealed by an act of the legislature approved March 16, 1903 (Stats. 1903, p. 166, c. 151), which took effect on its passage; and the defendant has thus ceased to exist, leaving no successor in' interest or in obligation. It follows that the action, which “is deemed to be pending .... until its final determination on appeal” (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 1049), was thereby abated (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 385; Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, “Abatement,” p. 6; Green v. Watkins, 6 Wheat. (19 U. S.) 261, 5 L. Ed. 256), and, with it, the judgment and this appeal. The appeal should therefore be dismissed, without costs (Estate of Baby, 87 Cal. 200, 22 Am. St. Rep. 239, 25 Pac. 405; Estate of Shaver, 131 Cal. 221, 63 Pac. 340; Bienenfeld v. Fresno Milling Co., 82 Cal. 426, 22 Pac. 1113), and we. so advise.

We concur: Gray, C.; Haynes, C.

PER CURIAM.—For the reasons given in the foregoing opinion the appeal herein is dismissed.