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      "A. M. KISTLER v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY."
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        "text": "Pee Cueiam.\nTbis is a proceeding to obtain a determination of tbe question whether tbe defendant can legally transport a barrel of beer from a point beyond tbe State to Morganton, N. 0.; and there deliver it to tbe plaintiff. Tbe plaintiff files a brief contending that chapter 24, sec. 3, Laws 1907, forbidding such act, and tbe act of Congress ratified 3 March, 1913, cannot deprive him of tbe right to receive such consignment. Tbe defendant, in bis brief, avers that be is ready to obey tbe law if be knows what it is, and files a brief in accordance with tbe contention of tbe plaintiff. It is apparent that both parties are interested on tbe same side, and that tbis is really a proceeding to ask tbe advice or opinion of tbe Court on practically a \u201cmoot case,\u201d when there is no doubt as to tbe facts. There was no stay of execution, and tbe beer was doubtle.ss delivered and long since consumed.\nIn Parker v. Bank, 152 N. C., 255, tbis Court held that tbe object of tbe suit was evidently to procure a construction of section 4, cb. 150, Laws 1909, and that it was instituted solely for tbe purpose of obtaining tbe opinion of tbe Court, and dismissed tbe action. That case referred to Blake v. Askew, 76 N. C., 327, in which it was attempted in a similar way to obtain tbe opinion of tbe Court as to tbe validity of special-tax bonds, and where tbe same action was taken. In tbis case it would be necessary to construe tbe above statutes of tbe State and of tbe United States, and we are not willing to pass upon a question of such importance without tbe benefit of a bona fide controversy and full argument by opposing counsel. Tbe Court ba.s refused to entertain a controversy submitted to obtain tbe opinion of tbe Court upon tbe administration of tbe public school system (Board of Education v. Kenan, 112 N. C., 567), or to advise a sheriff as to tbe application of moneys (Milliken v. Fox, 84 N. C., 107; Bates v. Lilly, 65 N. C., 232).\nWe must, therefore, enter an order,\nAppeal dismissed.",
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        "author": "Pee Cueiam."
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    "attorneys": [
      "W. A. Self for plaintiff.",
      "S. J. Ervin for defendant."
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    "head_matter": "A. M. KISTLER v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.\n(Filed 2 October, 1914.)\nAppeal and Error \u2014 \u201cMoot Case\u201d \u2014 Intoxicating\u2019 Liquors \u2014 Carriers of Goods.\nThe purpose of this action being to determine the question whether the plaintiff, the consignee of a keg of beer, transported by the defendant carrier from beyond the State, is entitled to receive it in North Carolina; and it further appearing from the briefs filed that both the parties to the suit are interested on the same side of the controversy, and that the State and Federal statutes require interpretation: Held, the case is practically a \u201cmoot case,\u201d which, under the circumstances, the Court will not decide.\n[The following per curiam, opinion in' A. M. Kistler v. Southern Railway was rendered by the Supreme Court 29 October, 1913. The motion of defendant to reinstate the case for argument was allowed 18 November, 1913, and the case set for hearing at February Term, 1914, and accordingly argued 5 February, 1914. The case went over under aclvisari to Fall Term, 1914, and \u00e1 per curiam order dismissing motion to reconsider was filed 7 October, 1914, Walker and Allen, JJ., dissenting. By inadvertence the opinion was not published in the 168 N. C.]\nAppeal by defendant from Cline, J., at June Term, 1913, of Bubke.\nAction to recover one barrel of beer consigned to tbe plaintiff, and beard upon an agreed statement of facts. There was judgment in favor of tbe plaintiff, and tbe defendant excepted and appealed.\nW. A. Self for plaintiff.\nS. J. Ervin for defendant."
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