Skinner v. Skinner
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error from the district court of Lancaster county. Tried below before Tibbets, J. The opinion contains a statement of the case.
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Error from the district court of Lancaster county. Tried below before Tibbets, J. The opinion contains a statement of the case. The married woman’s act of 1871 wholly removed the •common law disability of a married woman and repealed section 331 of the Code so far as it prevents a married woman from testifying in a suit brought by her against her husband. {May v. May, 9 Neb., 16; Pope v. Hooper, 6 Neb., 187; Omaha Horse Railway Go. v. Doolittle, 7 Neb., 486.) The petition does not state a cause of action. Such a suit cannot be maintained by a wife against her husband. {Barber v. Root, 10…
1Opinion of the Court
Ragan, C.
Lizzie C. Skinner sued George B. Skinner in the district court of Lancaster county, alleging, as her cause of action, that she was the owner of certain real estate; that George B. Skinner, by her permission and as her tenant, had occupied and used said real estate for about four years, and though often requested, had never paid anything whatever for his use and occupancy thereof; that the reasonable rental value of said property during the time said George B. Skinner had occupied it was $1,200 per year. George B. Skinner’s answer, so far as it is material here, admitted his use and…
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