Case ID: neb_39/html/0304-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Ragan, C.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

H. A. Merrill, appellant, v. City of Omaha, appellee.
    Filed February 7, 1894.
    No. 5123.
    Taxation: Sale of Land Not Subject to Assessment: Recovery of Purchase Money from City. The law applicable to this case was settled by this court at this term in Pennoclcv. Douglas County, 39 Neb., 293,’ and on- the authority of that case the decree appealed from in this case is affirmed.
    Appeal from the district court of Douglas- county. Heard below before Wakeley, J.
    
      Henry W. Pennock, for appellant.
    
      W. J. Connell and A, J. Poppleton, contra.
    
   Ragan, C.

H. A. Merrill brought this suit in the district court of Douglas county against the city of Omaha to recover certain city taxes which he had paid upon real estate. The tax levy was void because the property was not taxable. At the time Merrill paid the taxes he was the owner of tax sale certificates against the property, which he had received from the treasurer of Douglas county at a sale of property for taxes for a prior year. . The district court sustained a demurrer to Merrill’s petition filed thereto, on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, and dismissed Merrill’s case, and he brings it here on appeal.

The law of this case was settled by this court at this term in Pennock v. Douglas County, 39 Neb., 293, and on the authority of that case the decree of the district court in the case at bar is

Affirmed.