Case ID: ky_154/html/0773-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Chief Jus-? tice Hobson", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Alexander v. Alexander.
    (Decided September 23, 1913).
    Appeal from Owen Circuit Court.
    Action — Action for Mistake — Limitation.—An action for relief for mistake cannot be maintained after ten years from the time the transaction occurred and this rule applies in an action by a sheriff against his deputy to correct a mistake in a settlement made more than ten years before the action was brought; (For original opinion see 154 Ky., 324). ' -
    CLORE, DICKERSON & CLAYTON, H. W. ALEXANDER, H. G. BOTTS and W. A. LEE for appellant.
    W. B. MOODY, J. D. VAULANDINGHAM for appellee.
   Response to Petition for Rehearing by

Chief Jus-? tice Hobson

Overruling Petition.

Under section 2519, Kentucky Statutes, an action for relief from fraud or mistake may be brought within five years after the fraud or mistake was discovered, or might have been discovered by ordinary diligence; “but no such action shall be brought ten years after the time of making the contract or the perpetration of the fraud.” Under this statute it has been repeatedly held that no action for relief for fraud or mistake can be maintained after the lapse of ten years after the transaction occurred. This action was begun on February 9, 1911. The settlements between appellant and his deputy for the years 1898 and 1899 were made more than ten years before the action was brought. The action was, therefore, brought too late to obtain relief against these set-' tlements, although appellant discovered the mistake within five years before the action was brought. (Green Co. v. Howard, 127 Ky., 379.)

Petition overruled.