Case Name: STATE ex rel. DORLAND v. COUNTY ELECTION BOARD OF COMANCHE COUNTY
Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1937-04-06
Citations: 180 Okla. 334
Docket Number: No. 27263
Parties: STATE ex rel. DORLAND v. COUNTY ELECTION BOARD OF COMANCHE COUNTY.
Judges: OSBORN, C. J., BAYLESS, Y. C. J., and PHELPS, GIBSON, and HURST, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Oklahoma Reports
Volume: 180
Pages: 334–334

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. DORLAND v. COUNTY ELECTION BOARD OF COMANCHE COUNTY.
No. 27263.
April 6, 1937.
Rehearing Denied May 25, 1937.
Application for Leave to Pile Second Petition for Rehearing Denied June 22, 1937.
S. R. X-Iarper and Robert Landers, for plaintiff in error.
Dwight Malcolm, Charles Bledsoe, and C. S. McCuiston, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
On the 28th day of April, 1934, plaintiff filed a proceeding against the county election board of Comanche county, Okla., seeking a writ of mandamus to declare him the holder of an of Bce as councilman of the city council of the city of Law-ton, in one of the several wards of that city. We are of the opinion that this proceeding must be dismissed under the rule announced in Edwards v. Welch, 29 Okla. 335, 116 P. 791; Hudson v. Moore, 169 Okla. 12, 35 P. (2d) 886; Revard v. Givens, 139 Okla. 60, 281 P. 233. In Hudson v. Moore, supra, it is said;
"When the question presented by an appeal has become moot, the appeal will be dismissed."
Therein it is pointed out that the term of office actually involved in the proceeding ended in 1933, and that when the term of office had expired the office was properly filled at the biennial city election in the spring of 1930.
Under the holdings of the above cases, if, as a matter of law, the writ should have originally been granted, the term of plaintiff expired in the spring of 1936.
The appeal is therefore dismissed.
OSBORN, C. J., BAYLESS, Y. C. J., and PHELPS, GIBSON, and HURST, JJ., concur.