Case Name: William Fritz, plaintiff in error, v. F. W. Barnes and others, defendants in error
Court: Nebraska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Nebraska
Decision Date: 1877-10
Citations: 6 Neb. 435
Docket Number: 
Parties: William Fritz, plaintiff in error, v. F. W. Barnes and others, defendants in error.
Judges: 
Reporter: Nebraska Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 435–436

Head Matter:
William Fritz, plaintiff in error, v. F. W. Barnes and others, defendants in error.
1. Practice: signing and verifying petition. The failure to sign and verify a petition is no ground for dismissing an action.
2. -: -. When these defects exist in a petition, a motion may be properly interposed to strike the petition from the flies, which will compel the filing of a new petition properly verified.
Error from the district court of Madison county.
J. K. P. McCollum, for plaintiff in error.
W. M. Bobmson, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Lake, Ch. J.
The record in this case discloses the fact that the petition when filed in the court below, and at the time the summons issued thereon, was neither signed nor verified as the statute requires. In fact these requisites were both entirely wanting. While in this condition the defendants moved " the court to dismiss the suit for the reason that there is no petition filed in said court as required by law." The court 'Sustained this motion and " dismissed the action without prejudice at the plantiff's costs."
When the defects here mentioned exist in a petition a motion particularly specifying them may be properly interposed to strike it from the files. The sustaining of such a motion will of course compel tbe plaintiff to file a new petition, properly verified. But so long as such defective petition remains on file it furnisbes no ground for dismissing the action, nor can a- motion to that end be properly sustained.
For these reasons the judgment of the district court is reversed, and tbe cause remanded for further proceedings. .
Reversed and remanded.