Case ID: ky_26/html/0577-01.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

Kilgour, &c. vs Parker, &c.
    Chancery. Case 165.
    April 19.
    Error to the Trigg Circuit; Benjamin Shackleford, Judge.
    
      Bank notes. Jurisdiction.
    
    The remedy f°r the recov-p2i<l° for°a banknote, which turns out to he a counterfeit, is al cery?° DflS 710 ytirto* diction over suoh °af?>un-bae c„e3“°^' 6!iry.
    Triplett, for plaintiff; Denny, for defendant
   Chief Justice Robertson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The defendants in error obtained -a decree against the plaintiffs in error for $180, in com non wealth’s notes, for a note for $100, on a southern bank, charged to have been sold by the plaintiffs to the defendants for $180 in commonwealth’s paper, and which was ascertained afterwards to be counterfeit.

If the defendants have any right to recover, they might obtain reparation by a suit at Jaw. They alleged no fact in their bill, which could transfer to the chancellor,Jurisdiction of their claim to damages.

mi i -ti , . . . , , ,. 1 he bill contains no intimation that a discovery was necessary. The bill is not one for discovery, W herefore, the circuit court had no jurisdiction. See Smith’s exr’s. vs. Clay, III. Bibb, 272.

The decree is therefore reversed, and the cause is . . . i • • . remanded with instructions to dismiss the bill, unless it shall be amended so as to allow tile chancellor to take cognizance of the case; such amendment, if the facts willjustify the defendants in making it, may be Indulged, as the plaintiffs had not answered.