Title: BRYAN v. SULLIVAN
Citation: 119 P. 12 4, 1911 OK 362, 29 Okla. 686
Docket Number: 1476
State: Oklahoma
Issuer: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Date: November 14, 1911

BRYAN v. SULLIVAN1911 OK 362119 P. 12429 Okla. 686Case Number: 1476Decided: 11/14/1911Supreme Court of Oklahoma

BRYANv.SULLIVAN.
Syllabus by the Court.
Abstract or hypothetical cases, disconnected from the granting of actual 
relief, or from the determination of which no particular result can follow other 
than the awarding of the costs of the appeal, will not be decided by this 
court.
J. A. Diffendaffer, for plaintiff in error. Hudson &amp; Whalin, for 
defendant in error.
WILLIAMS, J.
On February 1, 1910, the plaintiff in error, as plaintiff, obtained the 
issuance of a temporary injunction out of the district court of Comanche county, 
which on the 7th day of February, 1910, was dissolved by order of said court. On 
March 8, 1910, a proceeding in error was begun in this court to review the order 
dissolving the same. On the 21st day of December, 1910, the action in which the 
temporary injunction was issued and dissolved was tried in said district court, 
and judgment rendered therein in favor of the defendant.
Defendant in error moves to dismiss this proceeding on the ground that only a 
moot question is now involved. The plaintiff in error has neither made any 
response to this motion nor in any way resisted the dismissal of this proceeding 
in error. The time in which the plaintiff was allowed to make and serve a 
case-made has expired, without any re-extension, and no case-made has been made 
and served. It further appears that no question which could be reviewed by 
transcript arises on said record. It follows that the only relief that could be 
awarded now by the determination of this appeal would be in the way of 
costs.
It is a settled holding of this court that it will not decide abstract or 
hypothetical cases, disconnected from the granting of actual relief or from the 
determination of which no particular result can follow other than an 
adjudication as to who will pay the costs of the appeal.
The motion to dismiss is therefore sustained. All the Justices 
concur.