Case ID: ky-op_10/html/0924-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Hines :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth v. William Skeeters, et al.
    [Abstract Kentucky Law Reporter, Vol. 2 — 59.]
    Suit on Common-Law Bond.
    A common-law obligation can only be proceeded upon in a court having civil jurisdiction.
    APPEAL PROM HARDIN CIRCUIT COURT.
    
      Hardin, for appellant.
    
    
      Montgomery & Poston, for appellees.
    
    [Cited, Brown v. Commonwealth, 2 Ky. L. 214.]
    December 9, 1880.
   Opinion by

Judge Hines :

The demurrer to the petition in this case was properly sustained. If the bond is good for'any purpose, and we think it is not, it is good for only a common-law obligation, and can be proceeded upon only in a court having civil jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of the Hardin Criminal Court was exclusively criminal, and this being a civil proceeding there was no jurisdiction. Morgan v. Commonwealth, 12 Bush 84.

Affirmed.