ZEILER v. REIFSCHNEIDER

No. S-23-329.

1 N.W.3d 880 (2024)

315 Neb. 880

Michael ZEILER, appellee, v. Kenneth E. REIFSCHNEIDER, TRUSTEE OF the KENNETH E. REIFSCHNEIDER LIVING TRUST, appellant.

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

Filed February 2, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven W. Olsen and Adam A. Hoesing , of Simmons Olsen Law Firm, P.C., L.L.O., Scottsbluff, for appellant.

Tylor J. Petitt , Scottsbluff, of Shapiro Riha Law, L.L.P., for appellee.

Heavican, C.J., Miller-Lerman, Cassel, Stacy, Funke, Papik, and Freudenberg, JJ.


For over three decades, two Scotts Bluff County families, the Zeilers and the Reifschneiders, have disputed their respective rights to divert water from neighboring tracts of farmland. In the latest chapter of the saga, Michael Zeiler filed a contempt action against Kenneth E. Reifschneider on the theory that Reifschneider had willfully...

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