§ 25-1651.Jurors; actions to which county or other municipal corporation a party; inhabitants and taxpayers; serve, when.

Section 25-1651 forecloses an old objection: that a taxpayer or resident of a governmental entity has too great a financial stake in a suit against that entity to serve impartially on the jury deciding it. The statute states plainly that on the trial of any suit in which a county or other municipal corporation is a party, the inhabitants and taxpayers of that county or municipal corporation are qualified to serve as jurors, so long as they are otherwise qualified under Nebraska law.

This matters most in civil suits against a county, city, or other municipal corporation, where the jury pool for a case tried in that same county would otherwise consist heavily of the entity’s own residents and taxpayers. Rather than disqualifying that pool wholesale, the section treats ordinary residency and taxpayer status as no bar to service, leaving the general qualifications and disqualifications in § 25-1650 as the operative screen.