14 Neb. 211 | Neb. | 1883
This is a proceeding in error to reverse a judgment of the district court for Lancaster county. The action originated in the county court of said county, and was brought by the defendant in error against W. F. Sherman, as maker, and three other persons, including the plaintiff in error, as endorsers of several promissory notes. Of these defendants, one only, C. C. Pace, was found and summoned in Lancaster county. The plaintiff in error was found and served in Jefferson county in this state, whither a summons was sent for that purpose. In obedience to the command of the writ, Pearson appeared, and a trial was had resulting in a judgment against him, from which he duly appealed to the district court, where a like result was reached.
The only ground of alleged error, and on which it is now sought to have the judgment of the district court reversed, is, that the county court, by the service of its summons in Jefferson county, acquired no jurisdiction over the person of the plaintiff in error. And this ground is taken upon the assumption, simply, that the defendant Pace, who alone was served with the summons in Lancaster county, although sued as endorser, was in reality, liable only as guarantor, and therefore improperly joined as a defendant in that action. The argument of the counsel for the plaintiff in error amounts simply to this, that inasmuch as Pace, although nominally an endorser on the notes, was really liable only in the capacity of a guarantor, and therefore, under the rule announced in the case of Mowery v. Mast, 9 Neb., 445, not liable to be proceeded against jointly with
But it is wholly unnecessary to trouble ourselves with what occurred in the county court prior to the entry of judgment there; for regardless of it all, it is very clear that the district court, whose judgment alone we are now dealing with, had jurisdiction over Pearson, and was given it by his own voluntary act — that of appeal. By his appeal he vacated the judgment of the county court, and brought the case within the jurisdiction of the district court, thereby subjecting himself to such judgment, under the law, as the facts of the case warranted; that the facts warranted.the judgment which the district court gave, is
Judgment affirmed.