Can a motion to dismiss an appeal from a judgment denying an injunction to restrain defendants from building a proposed dwelling be dismissed for mootness?

In Smith v. North, supra, 244 Cal.App.2d 245, 53 Cal.Rptr. 94, this court considered an appeal from a judgment denying an injunction to restrain defendants from building a proposed dwelling alleged to be in violation of tract building restrictions. A motion to dismiss for mootness was made on the grounds that the proposed dwelling had been completed pending the appeal. The court considered the merits of the appeal,

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County of Los Angeles v. Butcher, 155 Cal.App.2d 744, 318 P.2d 838, considered a motion to dismiss an appeal from a judgment dissolving a preliminary injunction and denying relief from alleged illegal[112 Cal.App.3d 706] lot divisions. The county claimed defendants subdivided a parcel into eight lots without filing a subdivision map. Pending the appeal, the defendants entered into land sale contracts as to some lots, and sold the others by deed. No stay orders were in effect. The court held the subsequent sales of lots rendered the appeal moot as to such lots. As to the land sale contracts, the court said at page 747: