59 Neb. 229 | Neb. | 1899
This cause was before us on a former occasion. See German Nat. Bank v. Farmers & Merchants Bank, 54 Nebr., 593. The suit was to enforce the constitutional liability of the stockholders of the Farmers & Merchants Bank. When the cause was here before no receiver had been appointed to make the collections, and disburse the moneys to the creditors of the defunct bank. After the reversal of the judgment, the district court appointed Elmer B. Stephenson receiver to collect from the several stockholders of the defendant corporation the several amounts respectively assessed and decreed against each of them. The Farmers & Merchants Bank-and the stockholders have severally prosecuted this error proceeding.
The point first made is that the receiver was appointed without notice to the defendants, and therefore such ap- ■ pointment is void. The statute requiring the giving of notice of an application for a receiver is mandatory, and an appointment made without such notice, in the absence or without the consent of the party affected thereby, is invalid. See Code of Civil Procedure, sec. 274; Johnson v. Powers, 21 Nebr., 292. But the requirements of the statute in regard to notice may be waived, and
It is also urged that the appointment was without jurisdiction and void, as no petition verified by the applicant was presented to the court for its action. The facts making the appointment of a receiver necessary were disclosed by the original petition filed by the plaintiff in the cause which was properly verified, but a receiver was not asked therein. An unverified motion was filed praying a receiver be appointed. When the cause was previously before us, it was pointed out in the opin
Complaint is made that the order appointing a receiver is not sustained by any evidence. No evidence was necessary, as the case was of such a nature that the appointment of a receiver was an indispensable necessity, as pointed out in the former opinion herein, and the cause was reversed and remanded to the court below “for modification of the decree, and such further proceedings as we have hereinbefore indicated, and as may be necessary to insure the proper relief herein.” In appointing the receiver, the district court merely complied with the requirements of the said opinion and the mandate issued in the cause. The court below could not do anything but carry out the directions contained in the opinion and mandate. It required no evidence to authorize it to act. The law of the case was settled in the former appeal and was conclusive upon the court below, as well as upon this court on a new appeal. The order from which this proceeding was prosecuted is right and will be
Affirmed.