Sanitary & Improvement District No. 145 v. Nye

Sanitary and Improvement District No. 145 of Douglas County, Nebraska (S.I.D.), sued its attorney, Charles A. Nye (Nye), for malpractice. S.I.D. appeals the Douglas County District Court’s judgment sustaining Nye’s demurrer and dismissing the action. We affirm.

According to the allegations of S.I.D.’s petition, in 1965 S.I.D. was in the process of annexing certain real estate. Nye was the attorney for S.I.D. In order to complete the annexation approved by S.I.D., Nye was supposed to file S.I.D.’s annexation certificate with the Douglas County clerk. (See Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-761 (Reissue…