Barney v. Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation District

I am in full accord with the majority opinion, but I cannot permit the dissenting opinion to remain unchallenged.

The method of perfecting an appeal to the supreme court is provided by section 20-1912, Comp. St. Supp. 1941. It is a statute with which compliance must be had to give the supreme court jurisdiction of an appeal. As such its provisions are mandatory. In the early case of Hurford v. City of Omaha, 4 Neb. 336, 351, this court said: “When a fair interpretation of the statute, which directs acts or proceedings to be done in a certain way, shows that the legislature intended a…