NELSON v. WASTEKA OIL CO.

YEAGER v. SHELTON
1911 OK 454
119 P. 994
29 Okla. 667
Case Number: 2462
Decided: 11/14/1911
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

YEAGER
v.
SHELTON et al.

Syllabus

¶0 APPEAL AND ERROR--Abstract Questions--Dismissal. Where, on account of the lapse of time, the questions raised on an original proceeding in mandamus become abstract or hypothetical and disconnected from the granting of any actual relief, or from the determination of which no practical results can flow, the case will not be determined by this court, but will be dismissed.

Original proceeding in mandamus, by P. J. Yeager against D. C. Shelton and others. Writ denied.

Davidson & Williams, for plaintiff

TURNER, C. J.

¶1 This being, as it is, an original proceeding by petition filed in this court March 25, 1911, by P. J. Yeager, against the defendants, "as and constituting the county election board of Tulsa county," praying a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring said board and its secretary to accept and file petitioner's nominating petition and place his name upon the official ballot to be used at an election to be held April 4, 1911, as an independent candidate for mayor of said city, the writ will not issue, and said petition is dismissed, for the reason that the time for holding said election having passed, the questions of law presented have become purely abstract or hypothetical, from a determination of which no practical results can flow. Reece v. Chaney et al., 28 Okla. 501, 114 P. 608. It is so ordered.

¶2 All the Justices concur.