Glissmann v. Bauermeister

30 N.W.2d 649, 149 Neb. 131, 1948 Neb. LEXIS 13
CourtNebraska Supreme Court
DecidedJanuary 9, 1948
DocketNos. 32261, 32280
StatusPublished
Cited by15 cases

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Bluebook
Glissmann v. Bauermeister, 30 N.W.2d 649, 149 Neb. 131, 1948 Neb. LEXIS 13 (Neb. 1948).

Opinions

Yeager, J.

The subject matter of the appeals herein and the parties to this action have been before this court on several previous occasions. A detailed history of the litigation appears in the opinion in Glissmann v. Bauermeister, 146 Neb. 197, 19 N. W. 2d 43. This history will not be repeated herein except to the extent that it is necessary in the ascertainment and determination of the issues properly presented and the disposition of matters, as will appear herein, already litigated and disposed of in this court and in the district and county courts of Douglas County, Nebraska.

On March 28, 1929, a lease and option agreement was entered into by and between Edmond H. Orchard who held title to certain land with improvements thereon in Douglas County, Nebraska, and Serena E. Grabow and John J. Grabow, her husband, whereby Orchard leased the lands to Serena E. Grabow. The lease granted to Serena E. Grabow an option to purchase. A statement of the other terms of the lease is unnecessary here. These parties are some of the parties to this proceeding. Orchard was referred to as Edmond H. Orchard in the agreement. The signature is E. H. Orchard. Harriet C. Orchard is named in the agreement but her signature was not appended thereto.

So that confusion may not arise attention is called to the fact that Orchard has spelled his Christian name E-d-m-o-n-d. Other parties have spelled it E-d-m-u-n-d. For the purposes of this opinion we will spell it in all instances E-d-m-o-n-d.

It was decreed by the district court for Douglas County, Nebraska, on June 6, 1930, that the lease and option was taken for the benefit of Tena E. Glissmann [134]*134and that she was entitled to the benefits thereunder and was charged with its obligations.

As, an incident of the lease and option Serena E. Grabow made a written pledge to Edmond H. Orchard of an interest in the estate of Hans C. Glissmann, deceased, to insure performance of the lease and option. Her declaration of the pledge is the following: “Whereas, said contract provides that I am to put up as additional security for the faithful performance on my part of all the terms, conditions and stipulations in said contract $5500.00, the same being a part of my interest in the estate of my deceased father, Hans C. Glissman; * * This declaration of the pledge and its purpose appears not to be questioned and we think it is not vulnerable to question.

The agreement which provided originally for the pledge had no relation to Edmond H. Orchard but was an agreement made in furtherance of a plan of Henry C. Glissmann to float a bond issue the purpose of which was to finance the operation of the Valley View Golf Course on the lands herein involved. That deal failed of consummation and thereafter the agreement for the pledge became a pledge available to Edmond H. Orchard in case of default under the lease and option agreement.

The pledge, to the extent that exaction was made upon it by Edmond H. Orchard, inured to the benefit of Tena E. Glissmann, that is to say, if there was a default under the lease and option agreement and Edmond H. Orchard resorted to the pledge in whole or in part for payment wherein Tena E. Glissmann had defaulted then to that extent and in that amount the obligation of Tena E. Glissmann under the lease and option agreement would be reduced.

As an incident of the lease and option transaction Henry C. Glissmann, in order to cause Serena E. Grabow to pledge $5,500 of her interest in the estate of Hans C. Glissmann, assigned to Serena E. Grabow all of his interest in the estate of Hans C. Glissmann. Henry C. [135]*135Glissmann and Serena E. Grabow are son and daughter respectively of Hans C. Glissmann and their interests in the estate were equal. The assignment is the following: “In consideration of first party so pledging her said share in said estate, and by these presents said first party hereby agrees to so pledge, second party hereby sells, assigns and sets-over unto said Serena E. Grabow, her heirs or assigns, all right title and interest in and to estate or any share therein of the late Hans C. Glissmann, which he, Henry C. Glissmann, second party herein, may now have or hereafter may accrue to him as heir or creditor of the late Hans C. Glissmann, his father now deceased. And the said second party hereby grants to first party, her heirs or assigns, full right and authority to receive, receipt for or acknowledge any or all necessary papers or matters in connection with or rights accruing in and to said share of said second party in said estate of Hans C. Glissmann, deceased, which share is by these presents assigned herein to said first party, and that said first party in the settlement of said estate or receiving of said share may do the same as seond (sic) party may have don (sic) in the premises, all of which said second party hereby acknowledges and confirms.”

At some time, the exact date of which is not made clear, Henry C. Glissmann appears to have transferred his interest in the lease to Tena E. Glissmann, his wife. Also in the assignment from Henry C. Glissmann to Serena E. Grabow it is provided that the lease and option agreement obtained by Serena E. Grabow should be assigned to Tena E. Glissmann. Therefore the litigation with regard to the lease and option was carried in her name and Henry C. Glissmann, her husband. Apparently on October 15, 1928, Henry C. Glissmann assigned his interest in the estate of his father to Tena E. Glissmann. This was prior to the assignment to Serena E. Grabow, but Tena E. Glissmann joined in this one so therefore the one to Serena E. Grabow took priority [136]*136over the one to Tena E. Glissmann. It is not contended otherwise. Apparently on November 3, 1930, Tena E. Glissmann assigned this interest to Harold W. Glissmann. Harold W. Glissmann’s rights were likewise inferior to those of Serena E. Grabow.

During all of the period from the date of the lease and option until shortly after January 23, 1942, Tena E. Glissmann and Henry C. Glissmann remained in possession of the property. At about this time they were dispossessed.

In March 1938 Tena E. Glissmann instituted an action in equity whereto Edmond H. Orchard and Harriet C. Orchard, his wife, Serena E. Grabow and John J. Grabow, her husband, Henry C. Glissmann, Harold W. Glissmann, and Hans Glissmann became parties. The action as originally instituted was against Edmond H. Orchard and Harriet C. Orchard as parties defendant. The other parties were brought in later.

The action as originally instituted was for an accounting of the amount due Edmond H. Orchard from Tena E. Glissmann under the lease and option agreement hereinbefore referred to.

On being brought into the case Serena E. Grabow and John J. Grabow filed an answer and cross-petition. The only matter therein contained which it is needful to mention here is that these parties sought to have the court decree that the rights of Tena E. Glissmann under the lease and option had been forfeited, to have title quieted in Edmond H. Orchard and Harriet C. Orchard, and to have the unused portion of the pledge of Serena E. Grabow to Orchard returned to her.

Edmond H. Orchard and Harriet C. Orchard filed an answer and cross-petition. In this, among other things not necessary to be mentioned here, they asked that title to the property in the lease and option be quieted in them and that the plaintiff be forever barred and foreclosed of all right, title, and interest in and to or equity of redemption in and to the premises involved; [137]

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