Title: LEGAL RECORD PUB. CO. v. MILLER
Citation: 153 P. 111 6, 1915 OK 1101, 54 Okla. 287
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State: Oklahoma
Issuer: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Date: December 21, 1915

LEGAL RECORD PUB. CO. v. MILLER Annotate this Case LEGAL RECORD PUB. CO. v. MILLER 1915 OK 1101 153 P. 1116 54 Okla. 287 Case Number: 5556 Decided: 12/21/1915 Supreme Court of Oklahoma LEGAL RECORD PUB. CO. v. MILLER, Mayor, et al. Syllabus ¶0 APPEAL AND ERROR--Moot Questions--Dismissal. Where, pending an appeal, the issues have become moot, and no practical relief could be afforded by a reversal of the cause, the appeal will be dismissed. Error from District Court, Muskogee County; R. P. de Graffenried, Judge. Mandamus by the Legal Record Publishing Company, a corporation, against W. P. Miller, Mayor, and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error. Dismissed Franklin & Carey, for plaintiff in error Sumner J. Lipscomb, Owen & Stone, Chas. Bagg, and S. V. O'Hare, for defendants in error BREWER, C. ¶1 Plaintiff in error brings this appeal to have reviewed and reversed the action of the trial court in refusing to award a writ of mandamus, to compel the officers of the city of Muskogee to award it a contract to do printing during a six-months' period, beginning June 2, 1913. ¶2 Defendants in error have moved to dismiss the appeal, on the ground that the questions involved have become moot, and that no actual relief can be afforded through a decision. The motion should be sustained. Of course a writ could not now be issued compelling defendants to award a contract to do the city printing, during the period from July 2, 1913, to January 2, 1914. The printing has either been long since done, or is not needed, and cannot be done. ¶3 Nor does the fact that costs might be saved plaintiff in error by a decision alter the case. Neither does the claim that plaintiff in error might have a cause of action for damages affect the matter under the circumstances of the case. This is not a decision on the merits; it is a declination to consider the issues originally involved in the appeal. Farquharson v. State ex rel. Calvert, 26 Okla. 767 , 110 P. 909; Sneed v. State ex rel. Yoeman, 27 Okla. 259 , 111 P. 203; Miller v. Ury, 23 Okla. 546 , 102 P. 112; Greer County v. Elliott, 26 Okla. 546 , 109 P. 731; Brown v. West et al., 28 Okla. 648 , 115 P. 796 ; Jones v. East, 33 Okla. 604 , 127 P. 261; Hodges v. Schafer, 23 Okla. 404 , 100 P. 537; Standard Stone Co. v. Greer et. al., 52 Okla. 595 , 153 P. 640. ¶4 This appeal should be dismissed. ¶5 By the Court: It is so ordered.