Case ID: ky_29/html/0549-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Chief Justice Robertson,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Martin et al. vs. Commonwealth for use of Shackleford.
    October 18.
    Error to the Hardin Circuit; Paul I..Booker, Judge.
    
      Interest. Deputy Sheriff. Declaration. Averment.
    
    Case 139.
    Judgment-against surities of a sheriff for current interest, decided, to be error.
    In suit against sureties of a sheriff for money collected by his deputy, the declaration should allege that the deputy collected the money during life of the execution and in his official character
    
      Brents for plaintiffs.
   Chief Justice Robertson,

delivered the opinion of the eourt.

This is a suit against the sureties of a sheriff, for money charged to have been collected by his deputy. The verdict was for $>50, and interest thereon from a given date. The judgment is for $50, and interest thereon, until payment. The judgment for current interest is erroneous. The'verdict is sufficiently certain. Its legal effects is for $50 and interest until the finding; and the judgment ought to have been rendered accordingly.

The declaration also is defective: it does not allege that the deputy collected the money during the life of the execution, or in his official character. Every allegation in the declaration may be admitted, and still the sureties may not be liable. Wherefore the circuit court erred in overruling the demurrer to the declaration.

Judgment reversed, and cause remanded, with instructions to sustain the demurrer to the declaration, and allow an amendment, if the plaintiff in the action desire to amend.