Title: LOOMER Commissioner of Finance and Accounts et al v. SCOTT.
Citation: 141 P. 110 7, 1914 OK 280, 43 Okla. 212
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State: Oklahoma
Issuer: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Date: June 16, 1914

LOOMER Commissioner of Finance and Accounts et al v. SCOTT. Annotate this Case LOOMER Commissioner of Finance and Accounts et al v. SCOTT. 1914 OK 280 141 P. 1107 43 Okla. 212 Case Number: 6324 Decided: 06/16/1914 Supreme Court of Oklahoma LOOMER, Commissioner of Finance and Accounts, et al., v. SCOTT. Syllabus ¶0 APPEAL AND ERROR--Moot Questions--Dismissal. 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. Error from District Court, Osage County; R. H. Hudson, Judge. Action between H. M. Loomer, as Commissioner of Finance and Accounts of the City of Pawhuska, and others, and W. G. Scott. From the judgment, the parties first mentioned bring error. Proceeding in error dismissed. R. B. Boone, for plaintiffs in error Grinstead & Scott, for defendant in error KANE, C. J. ¶1 This cause comes on to be heard upon a motion to dismiss the proceeding in error, in support of which there is an uncontradicted affidavit to the effect that the appeal in this cause now involves only moot questions of law, the determination of which can have no practical results. This is sufficient ground for sustaining the motion to dismiss. Bryan v. Sullivan, 29 Okla. 686 , 119 P. 124; McCullough et al. v. Gilcrease, 40 Okla. 741 , 141 P. 5 . ¶2 The motion to dismiss is therefore sustained. ¶3 All the Justices concur.