Case ID: neb_117/html/0097-01.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

Herman E. Fairchild, appellee, v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Company, appellant.
    Filed May 28, 1928.
    No. 25512.
    
      Kennedy, Holland, DeLacy & McLaughlin, and Denney & Denney, for appellant.
    
      Perry & Van Pelt, contra.
    
    Heard before Goss, C. J., Rose, Dean, Good, Eberly and Howell, JJ.
   Dean, J.

This is an independent suit in equity by Herman E. Fair-child for a new trial of the case of Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Company against Arthur A. Nichols and others, impleaded with Herman E. Fairchild, wherein the district court for Jefferson county entered a judgment against Fairchild and others for $8,502.94. This suit was commenced at a subsequent term of court, and upon a trial of the issues raised by the pleadings herein the judgment in the former case was set aside as to Fairchild and as to him a new trial was granted. From that judgment the Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Company appealed.

On direct appeal from the judgment against Fairchild for $8,502.94, it was held that he was not liable therefor. That judgment was reversed, with directions to dismiss the action as to him. Massachusetts Bonding & Ins. Co. v. Nichols, ante, p. 93. By direct appeal in that case Fair-child therefore obtained all the relief to which he was entitled. The present suit in equity for a new trial was therefore unnecessary, and for that reason the judgment granting a new trial in the equity suit is reversed and dismissed at the cost of Fairchild in both courts.

Reversed and dismissed.