Case ID: neb_114/html/0726-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Rose, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re Estate of Augusta Boyden. Lavinia P. Robinette, appellant, v. Eric Olsen, Executor, appellee.
    Filed July 7, 1926.
    No. 23426.
    Executors and Administrators: Actions on Claims: Reversal: Procedure. Where a suit in equity in the district court and a proceeding at law in the county court for the same relief in the form of a claim against the estate of a deceased person were irregularly prosecuted separately to an erroneous dismissal in each case, resulting in an injustice, and the records submitted together for review in the supreme court, where both judgments are reversed and a decree for the allowance of the claim directed in the suit in equity, the decree, when rendered, may be certified by the district court to the county court for allowance as a claim against the estate of decedent with a mandate showing the reversal of the judgment of the county court.
    Appeal from the district court for Douglas county: Arthur C. Wakeley, Judge.
    
      Reversed, with directions.
    
    
      Will H. Thompson and Oscar W. Johnson, for appellant.
    
      B. N. Robertson, contra.
    
    Heard before Morrissey, C. J., Rose, Dean, Day, Good, Thompson and Eberly, JJ., and Redick, District Judge.
   Rose, J.

To recover compensation for personal services plaintiff filed in the county court for Douglas county a claim against the estate of Augusta Boyden, deceased. The proceeding was dismissed and plaintiff appealed to the district court with the same result. Plaintiff subsequently presented the identical claim to the district court in a suit in equity. The actions were irregularly prosecuted separately to a disallowance of plaintiff’s claim in each court. The records in both cases were submitted to the supreme court for review at the same time. In the supreme court the decision on the' merits of the entire controversy was in favor of plaintiff in the suit in equity. Robinette v. Olsen, p. 728, post. For reasons stated in the opinion in that case the dismissal in this was erroneous. The judgment of the district court herein is therefore reversed and the cause remanded, with instructions to send the case back to the county court for a final determination in harmony with the decree directed in the suit in equity.

Reversed.