Case ID: neb_124/html/0305-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Dean, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

State, ex rel. Mary Esther Compton, Executrix, appellee, v. Elkhorn Valley Drainage District et al., appellants.
    Filed January 20, 1933.
    No. 28536.
    
      Courtright, Sidner, Lee & Gunderson, for appellants.
    
      Mullen & Morrissey and Wells, Martin, Lane & Offutt, contra.
    
    Heard before Dean, Good, Eberly and Paine, JJ.
   Dean, J.

Mary Esther Compton, as executrix of the estate of her deceased husband, Arthur D. Compton, began this action to obtain a writ of mandamus requiring the directors of the Elkhorn Valley Drainage District to levy a special assessment for the payment of a judgment obtained by her against the district in an action entitled Compton v. Elkhorn Valley Drainage District, ante, p. 299, decided herewith. The decision in that case reversing the judgment is controlling here. It follows that the judgment allowing the writ of mandamus in the present action must be and it hereby is reversed, with directions that the action be dismissed.

Reversed.