Case Name: Sandhill Land & Cattle Company, appellee, v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, appellant
Court: Nebraska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Nebraska
Decision Date: 1917-03-16
Citations: 101 Neb. 24
Docket Number: No. 19321
Parties: Sandhill Land & Cattle Company, appellee, v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, appellant.
Judges: Sedgwick, J., not sitting.
Reporter: Nebraska Reports
Volume: 101
Pages: 24–24

Head Matter:
Sandhill Land & Cattle Company, appellee, v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, appellant.
Filed March 16, 1917.
No. 19321.
Judgment: Reversal: Invalid Statute. A judgment based on a void act of the legislature will be reversed, if properly assailed, on appeal.
Appeal from the district court for Grant county: James N. Paul, Judge.
Reversed.
Byron Clark, Jesse L. Root, J. W. Weingarten, F. A. WHglit and D. F. Osgood, for appellant.
B. H. Boyd, contra.

Opinion:
Rose, J.
This is an action to recover damages prescribed by statute for delay in the transportation of live stock. Rev. St. 1913, secs. 6018, 6019. From a judgment in favor, of plaintiff for $400, defendant has appealed.
The invalidity of the statute under which the action was brought is pleaded as a defense. Since the appeal was taken the statute has been declared unconstitutional. Davison v. Chicago & N. W. R. Co., 100 Neb. 462. On authority of that decision, the judgment of the district court is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed.
Sedgwick, J., not sitting.