47 Neb. 108 | Neb. | 1896
This was an action by the appellee against Jones, the sheriff of Custer county, Foster, his deputy, and the Farmers & Merchants Insurance Company to restrain the defendants from the enforcement of a judgment of a justice of the
“ ‘Broken Bow, Sept. 8,1890.
Received of Humphrey Smith, two dollars, one-half costs Farmers & Merchants Insurance Co. v. Smith, also application for $3,000 insurance, in consideration of which we agree to release judgment in this case.
“ ‘Kirkpatrick & Holcomb,
“ ‘Attorneys for Plaintiff.’ ”
The evidence shows that after the judgment was obtained an agreement was entered into between Smith and Kirkpatrick & Holcomb, attorneys for the insurance company, whereby the judgment was to be released on payment by Smith of one-half the eosts, estimated at $2, and the taking out of new insurance to the amount of $3,000. Smith paid the $2 and made application for insurance. The company wrote the policy and sent it to the attorneys, but it was never delivered to Smith, for the reason that he failed to pay the premium thereon. It will be observed that the instrument which plaintiff counts upon as evidence of the satisfaction of the judgment is not, in form, a release of the judgment, but an agreement to release, whether in consideration of the application for insurance or in consideration of the insurance is doubtful from the terms of the instrument. There is a conflict in the evidence as to whether the judgment was to be released on Smith’s making application for the insurance, or
Reversed and dismissed.