New Orleans Flour Inspectors v. Glover
Supreme Court of the United States
New Orleans Flour Inspectors v. Glover, 160 U.S. 170 (1895)
16 S. Ct. 321; 40 L. Ed. 382; 1895 U.S. LEXIS 2353
The Chief Justice:
New Orleans Flour Inspectors v. Glover
Opinion
The decree below enjoined appellants from enforcing against appellees act No. 71 of the extra session of the general assembly of Louisiana of 1870, (Session Laws La. Ex. Sess. 1870, 156)'. This act was repealed June 28, 1892, (No. 23 of 1892, Acts La. 1892, 34,) and the appeal is dismissed on the authority of Mills v. Green, 159 U. S. 651.
Appeal dismissed.
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- Mills v. Greent 159 TJ. S. 651, affirmed to the point that when, pending an appeal from the judgment of a lower court, and without any fault of the defendant, an event'occurs which renders it impossible for the appellate court, if it should decide the case in fav.or of the plaintiff, to grant him • any effectual relief, the court will not proceed to a formal judgment, but will dismiss-the appeal.