63 Neb. 883 | Neb. | 1902
This action Avas begun in the district court of Douglas county by this plainitiff, Catherine Urlau, to foreclose two certain mortgages upon the real estate in question executed by Frederick Ruhe. The petition was an ordinary one in foreclosure. The defendant Ellery R. Hume filed a cross-petition to foreclose a tax lien, and the defendant Clarence L. Chaffee also filed a cross-petition setting up a mechanic’s lien upon the premises in question. The defendant Frederick Ruhe ansAvered, denying each and e\rery allegation of the petition and of the several cross-petitions. Herman Ruhe filed a petition of intervention, setting up that he is the son of Frederick Ruhe and one Fredericke Ruhe, and that Fredericke Ruhe died on the 30th day of October, 1888, seized in her OAvn right of the real estate described in the petition, and that the premises constituted the family homestead at the time of her death, asking that his interest in the homestead be determined. Upon the petition of defendant Chaffee this petition of intervention was striken from the files, Avhich ruling was excepted to, and is now alleged as error. The trial resulted in findings in favor of the plaintiff and the cross-petition- ' ers Hume and Chaffee, and decree of foreclosure adjudging the tax lien of Hume to be the first lien, and the plaintiff’s two mortgages the second lien, and the mechanic’s lien of Chaffee the third lien on the premises. From this decree the defendant, Frederick Ruhe, appealed to this court. His appeal was docketed in this court on the 15th day of December, 1897, Afterwards, on or about the 9th
We think this objection Avas not Avell taken. Section 163 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides that “Upon the death of the plaintiff in an action, it may be revived in the names of his representatives, to whom his right has passed. Where his right has passed to his personal representative, the reAivor shall be in his name; AAdiere it has passed"to his heirs or devisees, who could support the action if brought aneAv, the revivor may' bé' in their names.” This section was borrowed from the ’Code of Ohio, and has been construed in that state.
2. The matters set up in the petition for intervention of Herman Ruhe, are not determined or in any way affected by the decree in this case. They were not necessary to a proper determination of the matters presented in the issues herein, and the motion to strike the petition in intexvention from the files was correctly sustained.
It is urged that the plaintiff, Urlau, did not file any plea or motion to the petition in intervention of Herman Ruhe, but, this petition in intervention having been stricken from the files, it was not a part of the issues for any purpose, and neither party Avas required to plead thereto.
8. Tt is objected that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the decree foreclosing the mechanic’s lien of Chaffee, and we find that this objection is well taken. The only evidence offered Avas the certificate of the lien itself, Avith the testimony of Chaffee’s attorney computing the amount of interest due. This evidence is not sufficient. Wakefield v. Latey, 89 Nebr., 285.
The objection to revivor as to the heirs of Frederick Ruhe is overruled, and the decree of foreclosure .of the
Judgment accordingly.
When one state adopts the statute of another state, she adopts, with the statute, the judicial construction placed thereon by the highest court .of the state from which the statute was taken. Hallenbeck v. Hahn, 2 Nebr., 377; Coffield v. State, 44 Nebr., 417, 423; Forrester v. Kearney Nat. Bank, 49 Nebr., 655, 663. But see Morgan v. State, 51 Nebr., 672; Rhea v. State, 63 Nebr., 461. — Kepobter.