Case ID: ky_9/html/0023-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Owsley", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

FISHER RECE'S heirs, pl'tffs. vs. JOHN L. MAY & al. defend'ts.
    
    
      On a writ of error to reverse a judgment of the Jessamine cirt. ct
    
    A judgm't against an heirs is as if for his own debt against an executor de bonis testatoris 1 Mar. 314, acc.
    8 Oct. 1819.
    
      Wickliffe for plaintiffs.
   Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion of the court.

The judgment in this case having been taken in the court below by default, was correctly rendered against the heirs as for their personal debt, but should have been entered against the executor, to be levied out of the assets in his hands to be administered.

Because, therefore, the judgment is against the executor in his personal right, it must be reversed with cost, and the cause remanded, and judgment entered according to the principles of this opinion. 
      
       Absent, Judge Rowan.