Case ID: ky_24/html/0095-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Robertson", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

West vs. Patrick's Administrator.
    
    Debt.
    Case 30.
    Error to the Madison circuit; George Shannon, Judge.
    
      Judgment. Damages. Interest.
    
    February 5.
    
    Not error for judgment to be rendered upon former judgment for damages, without allowing interest.
    Turner, for plaintiff.
   Judge Robertson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

West brought an action of debt on a judgment he had obtained against the intestate, for damages, and by the default of the administrator, recovered judgment by the decision of the court, for the amount of his original judgment and costs. He prosecutes this writ of error, to reverse his second judgment, because the court did not give him interest. We see no error in the judgment, as the first judgment was for damages, which did not carry interest; a jury might have given or refused interest, in their discretion. 4 Bibb, 541. Consequently, for exercising that discretion, the judgment of the court ought not to be reversed.

Judgment affirmed.