Brockway v. Reynolds

Nebraska Supreme Court

Brockway v. Reynolds

118 N.W. 1055, 82 Neb. 757, 1908 Neb. LEXIS 345

CourtNebraska Supreme Court

DecidedDecember 5, 1908

DocketNo. 15,316

StatusPublished

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Brockway v. Reynolds, 118 N.W. 1055, 82 Neb. 757, 1908 Neb. LEXIS 345 (Neb. 1908).

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Opinion

Epperson, O.

Plaintiff’s action is for the recovery of $125, which he alleges was obtained by the defendants upon a check payable to the defendant Pitman and unlawfully converted by the defendants. Pitman filed an answer and cross-petition, claiming $100, and defendants Reynolds and Slattery filed a counterclaim for $25. They also brought into court $100, which defendant Pitman had demanded of them, and asked that the same be disposed of as the equity of the case may require. The prayer of their answer is that they be allowed to retain the whole $125. On the joint motion of defendants the court withdrew the case from the consideration of the jury, and entertained it as in equity.

The court erred in refusing plaintiff a jury trial, and we recommend that the judgment be reversed and this cause remanded for further proceedings in accordance with law.

Dueeib and Good, GO., concur.

By the Court: For the reasons given in the foregoing [758]*758opinion, this cause is reversed and remanded to the lower court for proceedings in accordance with law.

Reversed.

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Epperson, O.

Plaintiff’s action is for the recovery of $125, which he alleges was obtained by the defendants upon a check payable to the defendant Pitman and unlawfully converted by the defendants. Pitman filed an answer and cross-petition, claiming $100, and defendants Reynolds and Slattery filed a counterclaim for $25. They also brought into court $100, which defendant Pitman had demanded of them, and asked that the same be disposed of as the equity of the case may require. The prayer of their answer is that they be allowed to retain the whole $125. On the joint motion of defendants the court withdrew the case from the consideration of the jury, and entertained it as in equity.

The court erred in refusing plaintiff a jury trial, and we recommend that the judgment be reversed and this cause remanded for further proceedings in accordance with law.

Dueeib and Good, GO., concur.

By the Court: For the reasons given in the foregoing [758]*758opinion, this cause is reversed and remanded to the lower court for proceedings in accordance with law.

Reversed.

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118 N.W. 1055, 82 Neb. 757, 1908 Neb. LEXIS 345, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/brockway-v-reynolds-neb-1908.