Freeney v. First Nat. Bank of Plattsmouth

The difficulties in the way of maintaining the jurisdiction of this court are the following:

1. It is now the settled law of Nebraska that the county or probate court has original and exclusive jurisdiction in the probate of a will, and that its judgment and order in such a matter is final and conclusive unless appealed from. Loosemore v. Smith, 11 N. W. Rep. 493. It follows that we have no power to grant any relief except such as might be granted upon the assumption that the will is valid.

2. The statutes of Nebraska not only give the courts of probate exclusive jurisdiction of the probate of…