Kohlbeck v. City of Omaha

This appeal presents to the court the question whether the enactment by a municipal corporation of an ordinance, later declared invalid by the Supreme Court, is a fraudulent act which denies to the municipal corporation the right to raise the defense of statute of limitations when sued by an employee not a party to the action in which the ordinance was declared void. We believe it is not, and affirm the action of the three-judge Workmen’s Compensation Court which dismissed appellant’s petition seeking workmen’s compensation benefits on the basis that the statute of limitations had run against…