Hodge v. Pontiac Township Board

This ease comes within the rule that courts do not take cognizance of suits instituted merely to obtain judicial opinions upon points of law, especially when the persons invoking the jurisdiction have shown for the purposes of a possibly momentous decision no personal grievance or adverse effect upon their personal or property rights. As was said by Mr. Justice Frankfurter, concurring in United States v. Congress of Industrial Organizations, 335 US 106, 126 (68 S Ct 1349, 92 L ed 1849):

“This prerequisite [that a contest must fairly invite adjudication] may be lacking though there be entire…