Griffin v. Western Mutual Benevolent Ass'n

Maxwell, Ch. J.

This cause was submitted to the district court on the following agreed statement of facts:

“ It is agreed by the parties herein that the said James W. Griffin had been a short time prior to the day of his death, on the 28th of February, 1885, solicited to enter into a conspiracy to rob. and defraud the state treasury of Nebraska, it being represented to the said James W. Griffin that the said state treasurer of Nebraska was knowing to, and concerned in said conspiracy, and that the plan and detail of said conspiracy was to make a raid upon said state treasury and take and carry…