Opinion ID: 2150644
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Heading: loan of credit to a private corporation

Text: The Constitution of Nebraska, Article XIII, section 3, prohibits the state and political subdivisions from lending credit to a private corporation. A city directing credit to a public purpose with incidental benefit to a private corporation does not violate the constitutional prohibition against the state and its subdivisions lending credit to a private corporation. See, State ex rel. Beck v. City of York, 164 Neb. 223, 82 N.W.2d 269 (1957); cf. State ex rel. Johnson v. Consumers Public Power Dist., 143 Neb. 753 at 766, 767, 10 N.W.2d 784 at 794, 152 A.L.R. 480 (1943). In the present case there was no violation.