Court Opinion

ID: 9725151
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 11:32:43.994152+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:11.243012
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Boslaugh, J.,
dissenting.
I do not concur in the majority opinion in this case which holds that all of the proceedings in the district court that occurred after the filing of the petition are void.
The court does not decide the sole issue presented by the appeal, the ownership of certain promissory notes, but, instead, decides the case upon the basis of an error not assigned. In so doing, the court ignores the fact that the appeal is a direct attack and it is unnecessary to the decision of the case to overrule Murphy v. Fidelity Mutual Fire Ins. Co., 69 Neb. 489, 95 N. W. 1022, or *828to do more than hold that the appointment of the receiver was erroneous.
The parties who were directly interested in the determination of the ownership of the promissory notes were before the court, had notice of the hearing on the application for the appointment of the receiver, and have never made any objection to the appointment of the receiver. Since the appointment of a receiver is an ancillary remedy available only where an action is pending in which some other relief is sought, it is difficult to understand how the appointment of a receiver, even if void, would destroy the jurisdiction of the court over the subject matter and the parties as to relief granted independent of the acts of the receiver. In other words; if the district court in this case held that the receiver was entitled to the possession of the promissory notes because one of the corporate defendants instead of Earle M. Burnett, Sr., was the owner of the notes, then the determination of ownership as between the corporate defendant and Burnett should not be affected by the validity of the appointment of the receiver.
The majority opinion refers to section 25-1081, R. R. S. 1943, but does not discuss the language of the statute. I would hold that subdivision (1) of the statute authorizes the appointment of a receiver on the application of any party to the suit when property or a fund is in danger of being lost, removed, or materially injured and the action is by a vendor to vacate a fraudulent purchase of property, or by a creditor to subject any property or fund to his claim, or between partners or others jointly owning or interested in the property or fund. I would hold that the appointment of a receiver in this case was authorized by the statute and that no objection to the appointment of the receiver could be raised by any of the parties to the action in this court at this time.