Case ID: ky-op_11/html/0039-02.html
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Author: {"author": "Judge Hines :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Adam Gearhart et al. v. Lewis Pritchard.
    [Abstract Kentucky Law Reporter, Vol. 2-225.]
    Sheriff’s Duty to Pay Claims.
    Where the county court directs claims to be paid out of the levy of a certain year, and the sheriff collects the money, he has no right to deduct, as against claimants, any amount due him on general account, for the direction of the county court amounts to a dedication of so much of the fund derived from the levy as may be necessary to discharge such claims.
    
      APPEAL FROM CARTER CIRCUIT COURT.
    
      E. F. Dulin, for appellants.
    
    
      Botts & Botts, for appellee.
    
    February 10, 1881.
   Opinion by

Judge Hines :

Appellee’s petition substantially alleges, and it is not denied, that the claims sued on were directed to be paid out of the levy of 1876, and that the sheriff had collected and had in his hands of that levy a sum more than sufficient to satisfy appellee’s demand. This direction by the county court to pay the sums sued for out of a particular fund amounted to a dedication of so much of that fund to the payment of appellee’s demand, and the sheriff, therefore, had no authority to deduct, as against appellee, any amount due him on general account; and the only legitimate issue in the case, which was properly presented, was as to the amount of the payments made by the sheriff to appellee. It follows from this that the demurrer to the answer of appellants was properly sustained, and that the judgment of the court below, even as to the sureties, who alone appeal, should be affirmed.