Covert v. Richards

The district court enjoined the defendant-appellant, Mary L. Richards, from eliminating the leaks in the flat roof on her building by constructing a pitched roof and gutter system resting on half of the party walls separating her building from the flat-roofed buildings adjoining on either side of it, one owned by the plaintiff-appellee Daniel Covert, Sr., and the other by the plaintiffs-appellees Jerry C. Higgins and his wife, Myrna F. Higgins. Richards appealed to the Nebraska Court of Appeals, claiming that the district court erred in so ruling. We then, on our own motion, removed the…