65 Neb. 711 | Neb. | 1902
This cause comes here by appeal as distinguished from proceedings in error. The action begun in the trial court was one in equity in the nature of a creditors’ bill for the purpose of subjecting certain real estate to the satisfaction of a judgment held by the plaintiff in that action, which real estate it was alleged was transferred by the judgment debtor in fraud of the rights of his creditors, and especially the plaintiff in the action. After issues were formed, and a trial had in the district court, a decree was rendered directing the sale of the land in satisfaction of the judgment held by the plaintiff, subject to the homestead right of the judgment debtor. Prom such decree both the judgment debtor and the plaintiff prosecute an appeal. A motion by the appellant, the judgment debtor, has been filed to vacate and annul the decree and dismiss the action because during its pendency in this court the judgment on which such proceedings were instituted, and for the satisfaction of which the action is prosecuted, has been by this court reversed and annulled. The motion and the appeal on its merits have been submitted for consideration and determination together.
The judgment which is made the foundation and on which the creditors’ suit is dependent has been reversed and vacated by this court in an action by proceedings in error. Fiala v. Ainsworth, 68 Nebr., 1. The appeal brings the whole cause to this court for a trial de novo. The rule
For the reasons stated, it must follow, the decree appealed from being in a dependent action and the judgment on which it depends having been reversed, that the decree also must be vacated and the action dismissed, which is accordingly done.
Reversed and dismissed.