Williams v. Lowe
Nebraska Supreme Court
This was an appeal from a decree rendered by lion. Samuel Maxwell sitting in the district court for Douglas county. It was an action to compel an account, and for the redemption of four shares of stock in the Council Fluffs and Nebraska Ferry Company held by the defendants.
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This was an appeal from a decree rendered by lion. Samuel Maxwell sitting in the district court for Douglas county. It was an action to compel an account, and for the redemption of four shares of stock in the Council Fluffs and Nebraska Ferry Company held by the defendants. The finding in the court below was in favor of the plaintiff, an account stated by a referee, and a final decree rendered against the defendants for $7,532.42. All the material facts necessary to an understanding of the case appear in the opinion. after an elaborate, review of the evidence, contended that it was necessary…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, J.
The pleadings in this case, substantially, allege that prior to 1863, the plaintiff was the sole owner of four shares of stock in the Council E luffs & Nebraska Eerry Company, that by suit in the district court of Douglas county, the company obtained a decree against him, and another, for the amount of assessments previously levied on said shares, and directing the sale of the same to pay said amount, and that on the twenty-eighth day of .September 1863, the shares were, by a master of said court offered at sale and sold to Enos Lowe; that prior to said sale Lowe agreed with plaintiff to bid…
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