Dinges v. Riggs

Decided February 5, 1895

Nebraska Supreme Court · decided 1895-02-05

Error from the district court of Lancaster county. Tried below before Strode, J. This was a suit by Anna Riggs against Oliver P. Dinges. The plaintiff in her petition set up three causes of action: First, malicious prosecution; second, damage to plaintiff’s business by arresting occupants of her place of business; third, slander. Plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment on the second cause of action for one hundred dollars.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently November 1915

1 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Affirmed · Decided 1895-02-05

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

Ragan, C.

¶1This is a proceeding in error from the district court of ^Lancaster county prosecuted by Oliver P. Dinges to reverse a judgment rendered against him in favor of Anna Riggs.

¶2Dinges assigns here that the district court erred in overruling his motion to compel the plaintiff below to elect 'upon which one of the three causes of action stated in her petition she would rely. There was no error in this ruling of the court. The causes of action, and each of them, stated in the petition sounded in tort, and they all grew out of and were connected with the same transaction, and were therefore properly joined. (Code of Civil Procedure, sec. 87; Freeman v. Webb, 21 Neb., 160.)

¶3The second assignment of error is that the verdict of 4he jury is not supported by sufficient competent evidence. We think it is. The judgment of the district court is

¶4Affirmed.