Case ID: ky_8/html/0463-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Judge Owsley", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JENKINS, vs. GREEN.
    
      On a writ of error.
    
    
      17 April, 1819.
    
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   Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion jjfetbe court.

This writ of error is brought to reverse a decree of the court below, pronounced in favor of Greeu for $3,600, upon a bill exhibited by him in that court against Jenkins.

According to the allegations of the bill, Green , being the proprietor of a quantity of merchandise, placed them in the care of Jenkins, in trust, to sell for the use and ben-eft of Green; but Jenkins having fraudulently asserted a property in the goods, and sold part thereof, and being about to remove toe balance from the state, this suit was brought, as well for the purpose of obtaining a discovery 6f R|e am0Ulil:5 as for relief.

If it were proper to grant relief to any extent, there is no doubt but the court properly gave a decree for the value of „00)}s admitted bv the answer of .Jenkins, And that the case demanded relief, we apprehend there is no just reason to doubt. It was certainly correct to take coSn‘zance °f * he case, for the purpose of a discovery, and having obtained it, we suppose the court properly enquired into the fraudulent abuse of the trust, and gave relief com-mensúrate to the injury.

The decree must, therefore, be affirmed with cost,