People Ex Rel. Hoesterey v. Taylor

Upon the facts appearing in the petition herein the relator was not entitled to a certiorari order to review the action of the assessors of the city of Rochester in exempting from assessment the property described in the petition, if for no other reason, because the assessment rolls had passed out of the custody and control of the assessors at the time the certiorari order was granted. The court was then without power to order the correction of the assessment rolls.

The court will not decide questions which by lapse of time were abstract and academic at the inception of the litigation, even…