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  "name": "STATE ex rel. HUGHES et al. v. McNABB",
  "name_abbreviation": "State ex rel. Hughes v. McNabb",
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    "judges": [
      "WATSON, C. J., and SADLER, HUDS-PETH, and BICKLEY, JJ., concur."
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    "parties": [
      "STATE ex rel. HUGHES et al. v. McNABB."
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      {
        "text": "ZINN, Justice.\nAppellees were granted a writ of mandamus against appellant as acting state comptroller, commanding him to give appellees access to certain records in his office that they may be informed of the amounts of gasoline taxes paid by each individual, corporation, firm, or association in the state engaged in the-gasoline business.\nThe question for decision herein is whether, pursuant to 1929 Comp. St. \u00a7 60-212, the records, books, papers, and returns of taxpayers of the gasoline excise tax, in the hands of the acting state comptroller, are public records-subject to inspection 'by any interested person.\nIn view of the fact that no substantial rights are involved, and the appellant is no longer the incumbent in office, and that 1920-Comp. St. \u00a7 60-212 was expressly repealed by Laws 19-33, c. 176, \u00a7 26, the question is moot, and it is contrary to our policy to- decide a moot cause. Board of County Commissioners v. Coors, 30 N. M. 482, 239 P. 524; State ex rel. Mirabal v. Greer, 37 N. M. 292, 21 P.(2d) 819.\nThe appeal will be dismissed, and the cause remanded.\nIt is so ordered.\nWATSON, C. J., and SADLER, HUDS-PETH, and BICKLEY, JJ., concur.",
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        "author": "ZINN, Justice."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Frank H. Pattoti, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.",
      "Dudley Cornell and Hugh B. Woodward, both of Albuquerque, for appellees."
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    "head_matter": "28 P.(2d) 521\nSTATE ex rel. HUGHES et al. v. McNABB.\nNo. 3855.\nSupreme Court of New Mexico.\nDec. 18, 1933.\nFrank H. Pattoti, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.\nDudley Cornell and Hugh B. Woodward, both of Albuquerque, for appellees."
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