Merrick v. Thomas

Dina Merrick appeals from the judgment of the district court sustaining the defendants’ demurrer and dismissing Merrick’s action for negligence and promissory estoppel. Merrick appealed to the Nebraska Court of Appeals, and we removed the case to this court under the authority of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 24-1106(3) (Cum. Supp. 1992) in order to regulate the caseloads of the appellate courts.

In reviewing a ruling on a general demurrer, an appellate court accepts as true all well-pled facts and the proper and reasonable inferences of law and fact, but not the conclusions of the pleader. Durand v.…