HOOD & SONS v. BOUCHER

No. 4246.

98 N.H. 399 (1953)

H. P. HOOD & SONS, INC. v. PIERRE A. BOUCHER & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided December 21, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Rinden and George P. Cofran (Mr. Cofran orally), for the plaintiff.

Gordon M. Tiffany, city solicitor and Richard F. Upton (Mr. Upton orally), for the defendants.


BLANDIN, J.

The defendant board claims that the case has become moot and it appears desirable to consider this question before dealing with the basic issue of whether the Trial Court erred in holding that the decision of the board was contrary to law. It has been well said that "No word has been more frequently misused than `moot'" (53 Harv. L. Rev. 628), and further that the question of mootness is not subject to rigid rules but "seems, rather, to be regarded as...

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