Solen v. Virginia & Truckee Railroad
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. On the thirteenth day of December, 1876, William Solen, appellant, recovered judgment against the Virginia and Truckee Eailroad Company, respondent, for the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, with costs, being the amount of damages assessed by a jury for personal injuries received by appellant.
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Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. On the thirteenth day of December, 1876, William Solen, appellant, recovered judgment against the Virginia and Truckee Eailroad Company, respondent, for the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, with costs, being the amount of damages assessed by a jury for personal injuries received by appellant. Eespondent appealed to the supreme court, and on the twenty-first day of June, 1878, the judgment of the district court was affirmed. (13 Nev. 106.) The judgment so affirmed contained no direction as to interest. On the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Hawley, J.:
The decision in Hastings v. Johnson, 1 Nev. 617, is directly in point, and adverse to the views contended for by appellant, upon the real question presented by this appeal.
It was therein decided that where the judgment of the court is silent as regards the collection of interest, it does not authorize the issuance of an execution calling for payment of interest on the judgment; that the execution must follow the judgment, and if the judgment does not call for interest, the execution can not.
Upon the authority of that case, I think the orders appealed from ought to be…
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- Moran v. HagermanU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nevada · 1895
- Water Co. of Tonopah v. Tonopah Extension Mining Co.District Court, D. Nevada · 1931
- Solen v. Virginia & Truckee RailroadNevada Supreme Court · 1880