Hale v. Ripp
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court for Platte county. Tried below before Post, J. The issues made by the pleadings should have been submitted to the jury if there was any evideuce, however slight, introduced in their support. (Johnson v. if.
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Error to the district court for Platte county. Tried below before Post, J. The issues made by the pleadings should have been submitted to the jury if there was any evideuce, however slight, introduced in their support. (Johnson v. if. P. R. Co., 18 Neb., 696; Smith v. S. C. & P. R. Co., 15 Id., 586; Niehols v. R. Co., 2 S. W. Rep. [Ky.], 181.) To enable Gebecke to maintain an action on the subscription paper, it was not necessary that he should be named in it as the obligee; it would be sufficient that it was made for his benefit. (Miliani v. Tognini, 7 Pac. Rep. [Nev.], 279, and citations;…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxwell, J.
In this case the plaintiff alleges in his petition “that on or about the first day of June, 1888, the citizens of Humphrey, Platte county, Nebraska, were desirous of having a depot on the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad Company established at said Humphrey, and for that purpose were desirous of making a donation of certain grounds or lands to said company, then owned by one Henry Gebecke, situate near said village, and for the purpose of carrying into execution said purpose, the said defendant and seventeen other persons in and near said village of Humphrey, made, executed, and…
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