Sheppard v. Boggs
Nebraska Supreme Court
Appeal from Lancaster county district court. Tried below before Weaver, J., sitting in that county. The opinion contains a statement of the case. The referee finds as a fact that “ The agencies of responsible and reputable companies having an established business are recognized and treated by insurance agents as valuable property or interest, etc.”
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Appeal from Lancaster county district court. Tried below before Weaver, J., sitting in that county. The opinion contains a statement of the case. The referee finds as a fact that “ The agencies of responsible and reputable companies having an established business are recognized and treated by insurance agents as valuable property or interest, etc.” The parties both treated it as property at the time the defendant sold it to the plaintiff for $900. The measure of value of this property was fixed, and the value of the property itself was found by the referee. No bill of exceptions having been…
1Opinion of the Court
Maxwell, Oh. J.
This action is brought into this court by appeal. In the court below the case was referred to a referee, who found in substance that in October, 1875, the plaintiff paid the defendant $900 to be admitted to. a half interest in the business of certain insurance companies in the city of Lincoln; that the partnership continued until about the 1st of January, 1877, when the defendant excluded the plaintiff from the business and from access to the books of their agencies, taking them exclusively into his own possession. The referee found a settlement had been made between the…
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