Nebraska Supreme Court, 1904

Union Pacific Railroad v. Westlund

Union Pacific Railroad v. Westlund
Nebraska Supreme Court · Decided December 7, 1904 · Ames, Oldham, Sedgwick
72 Neb. 733; 101 N.W. 1134; 1904 Neb. LEXIS 293

Union Pacific Railroad v. Westlund

Opinion of the Court

Ames, C.

The record in this case is substantially identical with that in Union P. R. Co. v. Fickenscher, ante, p. 187, and the opinion in that case is therefore decisive of this.

It is recommended that the judgment of the district court be reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.

Concurring Opinion

Oldham, C.,

concurs.

*734By the Court:

For the reasons stated in the foregoing opinion, it is ordered that the judgment of the district court be reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.

Reversed.

070rehearing

The following opinion on rehearing was filed December 7, 1906. Judgment of reversal adhered to:

Sedgwick, C. J.

This action was brought in the district court for Dawson county to recover damages caused by a fire alleged to have originated in the carelessness of the defendant. The case was argued and submitted with the motion for rehearing in the case of Union P. R. Co. v. Fickenscher, ante, p. 187, and for the reasons stated in the opinion in that case, the judgment of the district court is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed.

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