Case ID: ky-op_8/html/0178-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Andrew Randall, et al., v. Elizabeth T. Randall.
    Judgments — Mortgage—Description of Real Estate. ■
    It is error to render a personal judgment against infant defendants.
    Judgment.
    The law does not prescribe how judicial sales, where mortgages are foreclosed, shall be advertised, and it is error for a judgment to fail to designate the manner in which such sales shall be advertised.
    APPEAL PROM KENTON CIRCUIT COURT.
    October 24, 1874.
    
      0. B. Hallam, Carlisle & Forte, for appellants.
    
    
      Stevenson & O’Hara, for appellee.
    
   Opinion by

Judge Lindsay:

It was error to render a personal judgment against the infant defendants.

The judgment fails to describe the realty adjudged to be sold, except by reference to the description set out in the petition and in the copy of the mortgage on file. This left the commissioner to determline judicially which lots or parts of lots were to be sold. The judgment directed the commissioner to advertise the sale according to law. The law does not prescribe how judicial sales, where mortgages are foreclosed, shall be advertised. It is error in such cases for the chancellor to fail to prescribe the manner in which the sale shall be advertised. It is not necessary to consider the remaining questions presented by the appeal.

Judgment reversed and cause remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.