55 Neb. 557 | Neb. | 1898
The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association brought an action in the district court for Saline county to subject to the payment of a judgment recovered by it against Bennett Hier certain money belonging to the latter and held by Albertns N. Dodson in his official capacity as
Appellant’s right to have restitution of the money on reversal of the judgment cannot be doubted. (6 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law [1st ed.] 835; Eames v. Stevens, 26 N. H. 117; Flemings v. Riddick, 5 Gratt. [Va.] 272; Bickett v. Garner, 31 O. St. 28.) And had the record disclosed the fact of payment this court would have made an appropriate order for the protection and enforcement of that right. But we were not informed that any payment had been made under the erroneous judgment, and no application was made for a vacation or modification of the absolute order of dismissal entered here. So when the motion for restitution was presented the cause was not pending and the district court was without jurisdiction of the parties. After the cause was dismissed the litigants were no more subject to the orders of the court than they were before the action was instituted. (Stone v. Smoot, 39 Ill. 409; Whatley v. Slaton, 36 Ga. 653; Morgan v. Campbell, 54 Ill. App. 244; American Burial Case Co. v. Shaughnessy, 59 Miss. 398; Crawford v. Cheney, 12 Vt. 567; Brooks v. Cutler, 18 Ia. 433; Williamson v. Williamson, 1 Met. [Ky.] 303.) In the last mentioned case it was held that a motion for apportionment of costs could not be entertained after the case had been dismissed; and in Morgan v. Campbell, supra, it is said: “By the order dismissing the cause the parties were out of court, jurisdiction of the court over them was gone, and
Affirmed.