Court Opinion

ID: 9600645
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:29:18.106633+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:53.534910
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.
This matter comes before us on a motion to dismiss the appeal in this case.
The appeal was argued before this court Thursday, June 14, 1962, and appears in our Advance Sheets of August 3, 1962 (ante p. 239, 373 P. (2d) 796).
The city of Seattle filed a timely petition for rehearing, which stayed the going down of the remittitur until we disposed of the petition. While the petition was under consideration, the city of Seattle moved to dismiss the appeal on the basis of the opinion of the United States *653Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in cause No. 16,653, Public Util. Dist. No. 1 of Pend Oreille Cy. v. Federal Power Comm., filed August 30, 1962, 308 F. (2d) 318, affirming an order of the commission.
It is the contention of the city that this decision of the circuit court is res judicata of the issues raised on this appeal and renders the appeal moot.
We are advised that Public Utility District No. 1 of Pend Oreille County will petition the Supreme Court of the United States to review, by certiorari, the circuit court’s affirmance of the order of the Federal Power Commission; and, pending such review, we do not accept the conclusions of the circuit court as res judicata of the issues heretofore determined by this court in its opinion of August 3, 1962. Nor do the conclusions of the circuit court render moot the issues presented to us for determination, unless, and until, the judgment of the circuit court becomes final and binding on Public Utility District No. 1 of Pend Oreille County, Washington.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is denied.