Case Name: Herman Nelson, Respondent, v. The Election Board of King County et al., Respondents, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Appellant; Mountain Development Company et al., Appellants, v. King County et al., Respondents
Court: Washington Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Washington
Decision Date: 1939-01-06
Citations: 197 Wash. 626
Docket Number: No. 27321
Parties: Herman Nelson, Respondent, v. The Election Board of King County et al., Respondents, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Appellant. Mountain Development Company et al., Appellants, v. King County et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Washington Reports
Volume: 197
Pages: 626–627

Head Matter:
[No. 27321.
En Banc.
January 6, 1939.]
Herman Nelson, Respondent, v. The Election Board of King County et al., Respondents, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Appellant. Mountain Development Company et al., Appellants, v. King County et al., Respondents.
W. E. Heidinger, Robert S. Macfarlane, Dean H. Eastman, A. N. Whitlock, Thos. H. Maguire, Edwin C. Matthias, C. S. Albert, Anthony Kane, Green & Burnett, Roy F. Shields, and Hayden, Merritt, Summers & Bucey, for appellants.
Houghton, Cluck & Coughlin, B. Gray Warner, William Hickman Moore, and Edward E. Henry, for respondents.
Reported in 85 P. (2d) 1045.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
These cases involve the validity of proceedings, under Laws of 1931, chapter 1, leading up to the submission to the electors of a proposition for the formation of a utility district designated as utility district No. 1 of King county. Pending the appeal of these cases, the proposition was submitted to the electors of the proposed district and rejected. The questions raised on the appeal have, therefore, become moot.
It is submitted by the parties, nevertheless, that the questions' involved are of such public importance that the court should retain jurisdiction and render a decision on the merits. But a majority of the court are of the opinion that a decision of the questions would subserve no private or public interest, in that such a decision would have no authoritative value.
The appeal will, therefore, be dismissed without costs.