Case ID: ky-op_11/html/0152-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Hines:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Henry S. McDowell v. William Coleman et al.
    [Abstract Kentucky Law Reporter, Vol. 2-389.]
    Jurisdiction of Police Court.
    Real estate can not be reached by execution from the police court. Its judgments and executions create no lien on real estate, and when such a levy is made and a bond of indemnity is taken, such bond is, without consideration and is void.
    APPEAL FROM CALDWELL CIRCUIT COURT.
    April 20, 1881.
   Opinion by

Judge Hines:

The property levied upon in this case was real estate (Clore v. Lambert, 78 Ky. 224), and could not therefore be reached by execution from the police court. No lien was created by the levy of the execution; there was no consideration for the bond of indemnity; there was no authority to accept a bond of indemnity in case of levy on real estate. For that reason and for the reason that the execution could not reach real estate, the bond was a nullity, and the court properly instructed the jury to find for the defendant.

G. W. Duvall, for appellant.

Judgment affirmed.