Benvenue Parent-Teacher Ass'n v. Nash County Board of Education

When, pending an appeal to this Court, a development occurs, by reason of which the questions originally in controversy between the parties are no longer at issue, the appeal will be dismissed for the reason that this Court will not entertain or proceed with a cause merely to determine abstract propositions of law or to determine which party should rightly have won in the lower court. Kendrick v. Cain, 272 N.C. 719, 159 S.E. 2d 33; In re Assignment of School Children, 242 N.C. 500, 87 S.E. 2d 911; Savage v. Kinston, 238 N.C. 551, 78 S.E. 2d 318; Cochran v. Rowe, 225 N.C. 645, 36 S.E. 2d 75;…