diff --git a/db/Node.pm.in b/db/Node.pm.in
index 4e5ba5ae8c8dec137669a033d6bdd66466591ab4..c79f5aba3d5199d810a08cf190c5cfe6f2072d6f 100644
--- a/db/Node.pm.in
+++ b/db/Node.pm.in
@@ -739,29 +739,6 @@ sub GetEventState($$)
     return 0;
 }
 
-#
-# We do this cause we always want to go to the DB.
-#
-sub GetEventState($$)
-{
-    my ($self, $pstate) = @_;
-    my $node_id = $self->node_id();
-
-    my $query_result =
-	DBQueryWarn("select eventstate from nodes where node_id='$node_id'");
-    return -1
-	if (!$query_result || !$query_result->numrows);
-
-    my ($state) = $query_result->fetchrow_array();
-    $state = TBDB_NODESTATE_UNKNOWN
-	if (!defined($state));
-
-    $self->{'DBROW'} = $state
-	if (defined($self->{'DBROW'}));
-    $$pstate = $state;
-    return 0;
-}
-
 #
 # Equality test for two experiments.
 # Not strictly necessary in perl, but good form.