Klein v. Pederson

Duffie, 0.

This is an action at law to recover the sum of $40 paid by the defendant in error to the plaintiff in error to prevent a criminal prosecution. There was a trial to the court without a jury and finding and judgment for the plaintiff below, from which the defendant has taken error to this court.

The record discloses the following facts: Pederson, the *453defendant in error, is a farmer living some fifteen miles distant from the city of Lincoln. 1-Ie is a Dane and unable to read or write the English language and wholly unacquainted with court proceedings. For three or four years previous to…