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Parker v. Territory ex rel. Bostick

Parker Et Al. v. Territory Ex Rel. Bostick, County Attorney

Parker v. Territory ex rel. Bostick, 1908 OK 22, 94 P. 175
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Supreme Court of Oklahoma · State Highest Courts
Decided
February 18, 1908
Docket
Nos. 1920, Okla. T.
Judges
PER CURIAM.
Citations
94 P. 1751908 OK 2220 Okla. 8511907 Okla. LEXIS 86
Disposition
Dismissed.
Syllabus
APPEAL — Review—Decision of Hypothetical Questions. The Supreme Court will not decide abstract or hypothetical cases disconnected from the granting of actual relief, or from the determination of which no practical result can follow. (Syllabus by the Court.)
Summary
Okla. T. Error from District Court, Afolle County; lefore Bayard T. Rainer, Judge. Action by the territory, on the relation of Charles R. Bostick, county attorney, against W. A. Parker and others, county commissioners of Noble county. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants bring error.

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Opinion of the Court — Per Curiam

Per Curiam.

On the 14th day of July, 1905, the territory of Oklahoma, on relation of Charles R. Bostick, county attorney of Noble county, brought suit against the plaintiffs in error herein, who constituted the board of county commissioners of that county, praying for a temporary injunction restraining them from levying upon the assessed valuation of the taxable property of Noble county for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1905, for the purpose of roads and bridges in said county, any taxes in the excess of two mills on the dollar of said valuation. On July 14, 1905, the judge of the district court of that county issued a temporary restraining order in accordance with the prayer, which order was on the 19th *852 day of February, 1906, made perpetual, and from -which final judgment defendants appealed to this court.

The proposition involved is the determination of the question of whether or not certain statutes of the territory of Oklahoma relating to roads and bridges, and the limitation upon the powers of the county commissionsrs to levy assessments for the building thereof, have been repealed by implication or otherwise.

In view of the fact that the time for making the assessment involved in this suit has long since lapsed, and the term of office of the defendants has long since expired, no practical result can follow a determination of the question presented, and the case is accordingly dismissed.' See 2

Cyc. 533, and cases cited.

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1908: 51909: 21910: 11914: 11924: 11937: 11944: 119082026peak 1908 · 5

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  1. Ellis v. Outler1910 OK 9, 106 P. 957
  2. Payne, County Treas. v. Jones1944 OK 86, 146 P.2d 113 · Dissent
  3. Mesa Mail Publishing Co. v. Board of Supervisors227 P. 572 (Ariz. 1924)
  4. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Territory1908 OK 110, 97 P. 265
  5. Albright v. Erickson1909 OK 79, 102 P. 112
  6. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. State1914 OK 416, 143 P. 37

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  1. Payne, County Treas. v. Jones1944 OK 86, 146 P.2d 113 · Dissent
  2. State v. Pyle1937 OK CR 150, 71 P.2d 997
  3. Mesa Mail Publishing Co. v. Board of Supervisors227 P. 572 (Ariz. 1924)
  4. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. State1914 OK 416, 143 P. 37
  5. Ellis v. Outler1910 OK 9, 106 P. 957
  6. Albright v. Erickson1909 OK 79, 102 P. 112

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