Opinion

Arrington v. State Ex Rel. Parsons

  • 422 So. 2d 759
Court
Supreme Court of Alabama
Filed
Aug 27, 1982
Status
Published
Author
Shores
On the bench
Maddox, Shores
Cited by
20 cases

"This Court has often said that, as a general rule, it will not decide questions after a decision has become useless or moot."

How later courts described this case

  • "This Court has often said that, as a general rule, it will not decide questions after a decision has become useless or moot."

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

I agree that the appeal is due to be dismissed as moot. I would simply point out that this is all this case holds. It does *Page 761

not directly nor by implication hold that the ten-day provision of § 9-1-1 , Code of the City of Birmingham, is mandatory.

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