“[I]n the absence of an actual controversy, an appellate court ordinarily will dismiss the appeal or writ of error, or will remand the moot cause with directions to the trial court to vacate the judgment and dismiss the cause.”
How later courts described this case
- “[I]n the absence of an actual controversy, an appellate court ordinarily will dismiss the appeal or writ of error, or will remand the moot cause with directions to the trial court to vacate the judgment and dismiss the cause.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
The foregoing opinion by STURGIS, C., is adopted as the opinion of the court. All of the judges concur.