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· 3/15/1888

Phillips v. Pullen

Citations

  • 50 N.J.L. 439
  • 14 A. 222
  • 1888 N.J. LEXIS 14

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that a genuine and existing controversy must be presented for adjudication as a court has no right to enter an advisory opinion
  • stating that “[t]he courts of [Tennessee] have no right to render [] advisory opinion[s].”
  • “where only the taxing of the costs is involved and the major question has become moot that we will not consider the question”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Affirmance, Brown, Clement, Cole, Depue, Dixon, Knapp, Magie, Mague, McGregor, Reed, Reversal, Syckel, Whitaker

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