Title: Scoles v. Hurd

State: minnesota

Issuer: Minnesota Supreme Court

Document:

148 N.W.2d 164 (1967) Margaret SCOLES, Appellant, v. Darrel HURD, Sheriff of Stearns County and Roger Nierengarten, County Attorney, Stearns County, Respondents. No. 40223. Supreme Court of Minnesota. January 27, 1967. *165 Rainer L. Weis, Paynesville, for appellant. Roger Nierengarten, St. Cloud, for respondents. PER CURIAM. Appeal from an order of the district court denying the application of Margaret Scoles for an order directing Darrel Hurd and Roger Nierengarten, as sheriff and county attorney of Stearns County, to execute the "written recommendation" required by Minn.St. 340.01, which provides in part: The case is not in a posture for decision on the merits. While Rule 81, Rules of Civil Procedure, abolishes the writ of mandamus, the relief formerly secured through this writ is obtainable still in a proper case. Marine v. Whipple, 259 Minn. 18, 104 N.W.2d 657. Without deciding whether the jurisdiction of the district court to issue an order in the nature of a writ of mandamus was properly invoked here or whether the order of the district court here involved is appealable, we dismiss the proceedings before us for mootness, it having been made to appear that defendants are no longer serving as sheriff and county attorney for Stearns County and that a license for the sale of 3.2 beer on the premises involved has been issued to a person other than appellant.[1] The appeal is dismissed. PETERSON, J., not having been a member of this court at the time of the argument and submission, took no part in the consideration or decision of this case. [1] See, Touhey v. Donovan, 259 Minn. 63, 105 N.W.2d 849; State ex rel. Longman v. Kachelmacher, 255 Minn. 255, 96 N.W.2d 542; Barnes v. Macken, 252 Minn. 412, 90 N.W.2d 222. Green's Bar Inc. v. Johnson, Minn. 147 N.W.2d 686, is distinguishable in that the defendant therein continued to hold office and to adhere to the view that he had the authority there in question, and in that the applicant therein kept pending before the council an application for a license upon which the council refrained from acting only because of its uncertainty regarding the defendant's authority.