83 Neb. 435 | Neb. | 1909
This appeal arises out of the disallowance by the county board of Sarpy county of a claim against said county filed by the county of Cass for one-half of the cost of certain repairs to a bridge over the Platte river between said counties. The county board of Cass county had previously requested the county board of Sarpy county to enter into a joint contract for the repair of the bridge. The county-board of Sarpy county refused to enter into such a con
Plaintiff’s right to recover is founded upon sections 6146, 6147, Ann. St. 1907. The latter part of section 6147 is as folloAvs: “Provided, that if either of such counties shall refuse to enter into contracts to carry out the provisions of this section, for the repair of any such bridge, it shall be lawful for the other of said counties to enter into such contract for all needful repairs, and recover by suit from the county so in default such proportion of the cost of making such repairs as it ought to pay, not exceeding one-half of the full amount so expended.” Defendant contends that, under the proviso quoted, recovery can be had only in an original action in court, and that said proviso does not require the claim to be submitted to the county board for alloAvance oír disalloAArance, and that the district court could not therefore acquire jurisdiction of the action by an appeal from the county board. It will be conceded that, if the county board Avas Avithout jurisdiction to pass upon the claim, the district court could not by appeal acquire jurisdiction, and, on the other hand, if the county board had jurisdiction to pass upon the claim, the district court acquired jurisdicdiction by the appeal. The determination of this case must rest upon the construction placed upon the proviso to section 6147 above quoted.
We recommend that the judgment be reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings according to law.
By the. Court: For the reasons given in the foregoing opinion, the judgment of the district court is reversed
Reversed.