All actions to recover damages for any trespass upon or any injury to real estate shall be brought only in the county where such real estate or some part thereof is situated, but such actions may be brought against corporations owning or operating any line of railroad in the state in any county where service of summons can be had, and all actions for the following causes must be brought in the county in which the subject of the action is situated, except as provided in section 25-402 : (1) For the recovery of real property or of an estate or interest therein; (2) for the partition of real property; and (3) for the sale of real property under a mortgage lien or other encumbrance or charge.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-401
Local actions involving real estate
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Dupuy v. Western State Bank (1985)
Most recently applied in In re Hessler Living Trust (May 2024)
R.S.1867, Code § 51, p. 401; Laws 1889, c. 29, § 1, p. 376; Laws 1911, c. 167, § 1, p. 543; R.S.1913, § 7612; C.S.1922, § 8555; C.S.1929, § 20-401; R.S.1943, § 25-401.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Nebraska Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nebraska statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.