¶1Messrs. James M. Flowers, Earl Brewer, and Edward C. Brewer submitted for plaintiffs in error.
¶2Mr. James A. Lauderdale, with whom Messrs. Rush H. Knox, Attorney General of Mississippi, and Mr. E. C. Sharp were on the brief, for defendants in error.
¶4The judgment is reversed, with directions to the Circuit Court of Coahoma County, Miss., to dismiss the petition for mandamus without costs, because the controversy involved has become moot. Atherton Mills v. Johnston, 259 U. S. 13; Brownlow v. Schwartz, 261 U. S. 216; Alejandrino v. Quezon, 271 U. S. 528, 535; Norwegian Co. v. Tariff Commission, 274 U. S. 106, 112.