Behr v. Willard
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court for Platte county. The action there was to compel the specific performance of a contract for the sale of real estate situated in Genoa, Nance county.
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Error to the district court for Platte county. The action there was to compel the specific performance of a contract for the sale of real estate situated in Genoa, Nance county. The defendants moved to dismiss the cause for want of jurisdiction, on the hearing of which it was stipulated that an election was held in Nance county, Nov. 4, 1879, for the purpose of electing certain county and precinct officers, who duly received certificates of election, and at the trial of this cause at the October term, 1880, were in full possession and discharging the duty of their respective offices; that…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
The territory now embraced in the county of Nance was, until about the year 1878, an Indian reservation of the United States, and not within any county of the state. About that time the Indian tribe for whose benefit such territory had been reserved was removed therefrom by federal authority, and the lands embraced in said reservation brought into market by act of congress. Federal authority being thus withdrawn, the *603said territory fell fully within the provisions of the act of 1873, Gen. Stat., 248, which are: “All counties which have not- been organized in the manner provided by law, or any…
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