Case Name: John Heesch, appellee, v. Benjamin T. Snyder et al., appellants
Court: Nebraska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Nebraska
Decision Date: 1910-01-20
Citations: 85 Neb. 778
Docket Number: No. 15,891
Parties: John Heesch, appellee, v. Benjamin T. Snyder et al., appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Nebraska Reports
Volume: 85
Pages: 778–779

Head Matter:
John Heesch, appellee, v. Benjamin T. Snyder et al., appellants.
Filed January 20, 1910.
No. 15,891.
Intoxicating Liquors: Appeal: Dismissal. The supreme court may on its own motion dismiss remonstrators’ appeal from a district court’s order sustaining a saloon-keeper’s license, where the record shows that the term for which the license was issued has expired, and that during its existence appellants made no motion to advance the case for determination.
Appeal from the district court for Sherman county: Bruno O. Hostetler, Judge.
Appeal dismissed.
Aaron Wall and Thomas Darnall, for appellants.
R. J. Nightingale, contra.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
John Heesch, appellee, procured from Loup City a license to sell intoxicating liquors during the municipal year beginning in May, 1908. Benjamin T. Snyder and others Avere remonstrators, and, when defeated before the city council, appealed from the order granting the license to the district court, where the license was upheld. They subsequently appealed to this court, and here reneAV the attack made by them below on the issuance of the license. On the face of the record it appears that the period for which the license was issued has long since expired. It folloAArs that mooted questions only are presented for consideration. Halverstadt v. Berger, 72 Neb. 462. As was held in Cutcomp v. Utt, 60 Ia. 156: "Courts are not organized to determine mere abstractions, and Avill refuse, on their OAvn motion, to proceed in a cause which inyolyes only a right which has ceased to exist." Mills v. Green, 159 U. S. 651; Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co. v. Dey, 76 Ia. 278; Matter of Manning, 139 N. Y. 446; People v. Common Council, 82 N. Y. 575. The rule stated Avill be applied herein, since the record shows that appellants made no motion in this court to advance the case for determination during the existence of the license.
Appeal dismissed.