Case Name: STATE ex rel. SMITH, et al., Relator, v. DISTRICT COURT MADISON COUNTY, et al., Respondents
Court: Montana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Montana
Decision Date: 1951-07-18
Citations: 125 Mont. 246
Docket Number: No. 9098
Parties: STATE ex rel. SMITH, et al., Relator, v. DISTRICT COURT MADISON COUNTY, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Montana Reports
Volume: 125
Pages: 246–246

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. SMITH, et al., Relator, v. DISTRICT COURT MADISON COUNTY, et al., Respondents.
No. 9098.
Submitted June 19, 1951.
Decided July 18, 1951.
233 Pac. (2d) 397.
Mr. Frank E. Blair, Virginia. City, Messrs. Doepker and Hennessey, Butte, for appellant.
Mr. Lyman H. Bennett, Jr., Virginia City, and Mr. Charles L. Zimmerman, Butte, for respondents.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Certiorari. This court caused to be issued and .served upon respondents its writ of certiorari returnable July 10, 1951. On trial day respondents interposed a motion to quash the writ. It was also represented to the court and conceded by the parties litigant that subsequent to application made to this court for the writ that the parties had entered into a stipulation for the utilization of the range involved for the season of 1951 and had posted bonds and it appearing that the issue presented to the court at the time it issued the writ has now become moot;
It is ordered that the motion to quash be granted and that the proceedings be dismissed.