63 Okla. 19
161 P 1174
Decided December 26, 1916
Supreme Court of Oklahoma · decided 1916-12-26
Error from District Court, Alfalfa County: James W. Steen, Judge. Action between Hank Duncan and others and Lillian Ratcliff. There was a judgment for tlie latter, and the former bring error.
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
““From the motion to dismiss filed herein by defendants in error, attached to which is the affidavit of the clerk of the district court, it appears that the judgment from which this appeal is prosecuted has been fully satisfied and discharged. Hence the questions presented here have ceased to exist and have become moot. “The appeal is therefore dismissed.””
quoted by 1 later decision, including Wallace v. Boston Mutual Life Ins. Co.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Dismissed · Decided 1916-12-26
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1995
19 state decisions
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¶1 From the motion to dismiss filed herein by defendant in error, attached to which is the affidavit of the clerk of the district court, it appears that the judgment from which this appeal is prosecuted has been fully satisfied and discharged. Hence the questions presented here have ceased to exist and have become moot.
¶2 The appeal is therefore dismissed.'