For the purpose of serving the county courts in each county, twelve county judge districts are hereby created:
District No. 1 shall contain the counties of Saline, Jefferson, Gage, Thayer, Johnson, Pawnee, Nemaha, and Richardson;
District No. 2 shall contain the counties of Sarpy, Cass, and Otoe;
District No. 3 shall contain the county of Lancaster;
District No. 4 shall contain the county of Douglas;
District No. 5 shall contain the counties of Merrick, Platte, Colfax, Boone, Nance, Hamilton, Polk, York, Butler, Seward, and Saunders;
District No. 6 shall contain the counties of Dixon, Dakota, Cedar, Burt, Thurston, Dodge, and Washington;
District No. 7 shall contain the counties of Knox, Cuming, Antelope, Pierce, Wayne, Madison, and Stanton;
District No. 8 shall contain the counties of Cherry, Keya Paha, Brown, Rock, Blaine, Loup, Custer, Boyd, Holt, Garfield, Wheeler, Valley, Greeley, Sherman, and Howard;
District No. 9 shall contain the counties of Buffalo and Hall;
District No. 10 shall contain the counties of Fillmore, Adams, Clay, Phelps, Kearney, Harlan, Franklin, Webster, and Nuckolls;
District No. 11 shall contain the counties of Hooker, Thomas, Arthur, McPherson, Logan, Keith, Perkins, Lincoln, Dawson, Chase, Hayes, Frontier, Gosper, Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow, and Furnas; and
District No. 12 shall contain the counties of Sioux, Dawes, Box Butte, Sheridan, Scotts Bluff, Morrill, Garden, Banner, Kimball, Cheyenne, Grant, and Deuel.
District 4 shall have twelve county judges. District 3 shall have seven county judges. Districts 5, 9, 11, and 12 shall have five county judges. Districts 2 and 6 shall have four county judges. Districts 1, 7, 8, and 10 shall have three county judges.
Judge of the county court shall include any person appointed to the office of county judge or municipal judge prior to July 1, 1985, pursuant to Article V, section 21, of the Constitution of Nebraska.
Any person serving as a municipal judge in district 3 or 4 immediately prior to July 1, 1985, shall be a judge of the county court and shall be empowered to hear only those cases as provided in section 24-517 which the presiding judge of the county court for such district, with the concurrence of the Supreme Court, shall direct.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
9
cases (
1 in the last 5 years), 1945–2021 · leading case:
State v. Lewis, 483 N.W.2d 742 (Neb. 1992).
State v. Lewis, 483 N.W.2d 742 (Neb. 1992).
· cites it 4× “§ 24-515 (Reissue 1989), which have broader territorial jurisdiction than a single municipality, Neb.Rev.Stat. § 24-503 (Reissue 1989). Neither do district courts review county court decisions involving municipal ordinances de novo; the review of such cases is for error…”
Rehn v. Bingaman, 36 N.W.2d 856 (Neb. 1949).
· cites it 3× “2d 829 , with relation to the constitutional provision aforesaid, and sections 24-503 and 24-504, R. S. 1943, discussed infra.”
Messecar v. Marsh, 17 N.W.2d 471 (Neb. 1945).
· cites it 2× “V of the Constitution of Nebraska, given “original jurisdiction in all matters of probate” and by section 24-503, R. S. 1943, it has “exclusive jurisdiction of the probate of wills.”
In re Crane's Est., 89 N.W.2d 44 (Neb. 1958).
· cites it 4× “(Annotated Statutes, § 4787) (now section 24-503, R.R.S.1943). In such matters it is a court of general jurisdiction.”
State v. Blankenfeld, 423 N.W.2d 479 (Neb. 1988).
· cites it 2× “This case began in the municipal court of Lincoln (now part of the county court for Lancaster County, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 24-503 (Cum. Supp. 1986)), where defendant was arraigned on May 16, 1984, and charged with driving a motor vehicle while his license was suspended and with…”
Hoover v. Haller, 21 N.W.2d 450 (Neb. 1946).
· cites it 2× “” Section 24-503, R. S. 1943, provides that county courts “shall have exclusive jurisdiction of the probate of wills, the administra *701 tion of estates of deceased persons, * * * It is to be noted that the language of these provisions does not go beyond the “estate” of the…”
Mueller v. Shacklett, 58 N.W.2d 344 (Neb. 1953).
· cites it 2× “In that regard, section 24-503, R. R. S. 1943, provides in part: “The county court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of the probate of wills, the administration of estates of deceased persons, * * Section 24-504, R.”
In re Bergren's Est., 47 N.W.2d 582 (Neb. 1951).
· cites it 2× “Article Y, section 16, of the Constitution of Nebraska provides: “County courts shall be courts of record, and shall have original jurisdiction in all matters of probate, settlement of estates of deceased persons, and in such proceedings to find and determine heirship; * * *:…”
Ashford v. Douglas Cnty., No. 8:20-cv-00036 (D. Neb. Dec. 20, 2021).
“§ 24-503 ; Neb. Const. art. V, § 21; see also Filing 1 at 4 (stating that “[t]he Douglas County Court is a branch of the Nebraska Supreme Court”).”
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