State Ex Rel. Davis v. City of St. John

PATRICIA L. COHEN, Chief Judge.

Donald Davis (Appellant) appeals from a judgment of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County entered February 9, 2007 denying his petition for a writ of mandamus. We dismiss the appeal, because the controversy in question is moot. 1

“ ‘A threshold question in any appellate review is the mootness of the controversy.’ ” State ex rel. Reed v. Reardon, 41 S.W.3d 470, 473 (Mo. banc 2001) quoting Armstrong v. Elmore, 990 S.W.2d 62, 64 (Mo.App. W.D.1999). “ ‘[A] cause of action is moot when the question presented for decision seeks a judgment upon some matter which, if the…