81 Neb. 125 | Neb. | 1908
The plaintiff, Harry E. Neill, began an action in the district court to foreclose a tax sale certificate issued against a tract of land in Hitchcock county. Among others, he made one Thomas A. Neill defendant, but did not allege the nature of the interest had or claimed by him. In this action the Girard Trust Company ivas permitted to file a petition of intervention, in which it alleged the making by one Burke, the then owner, of a mortgage on the land in question on the 1st day of January, 1887, due in 5 years from that date, and that no part of the debt thereby secured had been paid. The intervener asked to have an account taken of the amount due the plaintiff on his tax certificate, and that it be permitted to pay the same and be subrogated to the plaintiff’s rights in respect thereto. The makers of the mortgage were made party defendants, and the only statement contained in the petition of intervention as to the interest of the defendant Thomas A. Neill was the allegation that he claimed some interest or right in the premises, but that whatever interest he might have was subject to the right of the intervener. To this petition the plaintiff and the defendant Thomas A. Neill each interposed a general demurrer, urging in support thereof that the petition of intervention showed that the mortgage therein set forth had been barred by the statute of limitations before the filing of such petition, and that the same for that reason failed to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The district court sustained both demurrers, and, the intervener electing to stand upon its petition, judgment ivas rendered dismissing the same. The intervener brings this appeal to revieiv such decision.
We therefore recommend that the judgment of the district court be reversed and this cause remanded for further proceedings in accordance Avith this opinion.
By the Court: For the reasons stated in the foregoing opinion, the judgment of the district court is reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion. ’
Reversed.