7 Neb. 70
Neb.
1878
Gantt, Oh. J.

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 thе order of injunction.

It appears from the record that the defendant in error, *71R. De Lamater, had recovered a judgment against plaintiff in error, R. Kittle, in the district court of Dodge county, and that execution was issued thereоn, and placed in the hands of defendant, Turner, sheriff of the county; that some time afterwards Kittle commenced suit in equity, in the same court, to enjoin the collection of this judgment. On the nineteenth of June, 1875, Kittle procured the cause to be transferred to the U. S. circuit court, and on the twenty-first of the same month the circuit court mаde an order as follows : “ Temporary injunction allowed to remain in forcе until the twentieth day of July, 1875, and until modified or dissolved by proper authority, complainаnt first to give bond in the sum of five hundred dollars in the usual form ; notice of time and placе of hearing motion for renewal or continuance of injunction to be given tо respondents five days before the time of hearing the same.” The next proceeding in the circuit court was on the 18th day of December, ‍​​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​‍1875, and is as follows : “This cаuse came on to be heard on the motion of the complainant for a temporary injunction herein, and was argued by counsel of the respectivе parties. Whereupon it was ordered by the court, that a temporary injunction be allowed, as prayed for by said complainant, until the further order of the court, upon said complainant depositing with the clerk of the district court for Dodge county, Neb., the sum of twenty dollars, as security for the payment of the costs of re-advertising the sale of the property in question, should the injunction be dissolved.” And on the first of February,, 1876, the circuit court made an order remanding the cause to thе “ district court of Dodge county, Neb., for want of jurisdiction on the part of the court to proceed herein. The temporary injunction heretofore allowed in the case is hereby dissolved.” The defendant in error, in his petition in this case, in thе court below, says that “ said temporary order of in*72junction expired by lapsе of time and operation of law;” and N. H. Bell, attorney for defendants, testifies that “ under the law it expired as provided by law;” that upon a notice given by plaintiffthаt the injunction was to be heard in open court, on the twentieth of July, 1875,” he went to ‍​​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​‍Omaha, and some days thereafter he “ resisted a further continuance of the injunсtion, and it was argued by Mr. Kittle on the one side and Judge Savage and myself on the other, before Judge Dundy. Judge Dundy took it under advisement and held.it until the next term of the circuit court.”

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 advisemеnt by the Judge, and decided on the eighteenth of December, as shown by the court rеcord. It is therefore evident that no steps were taken to dissolve the first ordеr, 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 аttorney’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 defеndants failed to prove any cause of action.

It is not necessary, under thе pleadings in this case, to consider whether the defendants suffered any damagе by reason of the allowance of the second order of injunction, or whаt 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.