7 Neb. 70 | Neb. | 1878
This is an action upon an injunction bond, to recover attorney’s fees alleged to have been expended in defending the suit in equity, and in procuring a dissolution of the order of injunction.
It appears from the record that the defendant in error,
Now, from the petition and this evidence, it seems clear that the only question argued in July was Kittle’s motion for another order of injunction, which was taken under advisement by the Judge, and decided on the eighteenth of December, as shown by the court record. It is therefore evident that no steps were taken to dissolve the first order, and that defendant incurred no expense for attorney’s fees in regard to that order. The bond was given upon the allowance of this first order, and the obligors can *be liable only for damages incurred under that order; and hence, as no attorney’s fees were incurred by defendants by the allowance of that first order, there certainly is no liability on the. bond for such damages ; and therefore the defendants failed to prove any cause of action.
It is not necessary, under the pleadings in this case, to consider whether the defendants suffered any damage by reason of the allowance of the second order of injunction, or what effect the remandment of the case to the district court of Dodge county by the circuit court, for want of jurisdiction, has upon the rights and liabilities of the parties in respect to the allowance of the second order. But for the reasons given in this opinion, the judgment of the district court must be reversed and the cause be remanded.
Reversed and remanded.