Case Name: Gustavus Collins, appellant, v. City of Omaha, appellee
Court: Nebraska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Nebraska
Decision Date: 1898-05-19
Citations: 55 Neb. 208
Docket Number: No. 8087
Parties: Gustavus Collins, appellant, v. City of Omaha, appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Nebraska Reports
Volume: 55
Pages: 208–209

Head Matter:
Gustavus Collins, appellant, v. City of Omaha, appellee.
Filed May 19, 1898.
No. 8087.
1. Error Proceedings: Time. To invest this court with jurisdiction to review on error a judgment of the district court a petition in error must "be filed here within one year after the date of the rendition of the judgment sought to be reviewed.
3. Appeal: Action at Law. An appeal will not lie to this court from the judgment of a district court rendered in an action purely legal in its nature.
Appeal from the district court of Douglas county. Heard below before Ferguson, J.
Appeal dismissed.
C. A. Baldioin, for appellant.
W. J. Connell, Lee $. Estelle, and E’. J. Cornish, contra.

Opinion:
Ragan, C.
Gustavus Oollins sued tbe city of Omaha in the district court of Douglas county for damages for false imprisonment. The city demurred to the petition of Collins on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The district court sustained the demurrer. Collins refused to plead further, and a. judgment was entered dismissing his suit. To review this action of tire district court' he has filed here a transcript of the record and proceedings had in the court below, and had the case docketed as an appeal. No petition in error has ever been filed' in this court, and as more than one'year has elapsed since the rendition of the judgment of the district court, we have no jurisdiction of .the case. To invest this court with jurisdiction to review, on error, a judgment of the district court a petition in error must be filed with the clerk of this court within one year after the date of the rendition of the judgment sought to be reviewed. (Campbell v. Farmers & Merchants Bank, 49 Neb. 143.) Furthermore, this action is one purely legal in its nature, and an appeal will not lie to this court from the judgment rendered by a district court in such an action. This court can only review such a judgment on a petition in error. The proceeding filed here is
Dismissed.