Shelton v. Ladner, SEC. of State

Appellee has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal. It comes from the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, and was perfected by appellants from a judgment adverse to them. The motion charges that all “questions involved therein have become moot and that no useful purpose will be accomplished by entertaining said appeal.”

The action was brought in the trial court by a group of citizens representing themselves to- be “the duly nominated candidates for Presidential Elector by the Bepublic State Convention of Mississippi to. be balloted on in the General Election to be held…