Boylston Nat. Bank of Boston v. Wainhouse

The appellant’s seventh assignment of error is that the court below erred “in disallowing and rejecting your petitioner’s claim at a time when there was no composition pending and no adjudication had taken place.” The appellant thus asserts that the question presented is purely moot; the brief urges this point. Without this contention of the appellant itself, this case seems to me plainly to fall within the well-settled rule that a court will not decide moot questions. See Alejandrino v. Quezon (June 7, 1926), 46 S. Ct. 600, 70 L. Ed. —, opinion by Chief Justice Taft; Public Utility…