Case ID: ky_30/html/0593-01.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

J. C. Rodes vs. William Hays.
    Error to the Fat ettc Circuit; Higkey, Judge.
    ©ase 172.
    
      Fee bills, quashal of. Jiirisdiction.
    
    October 22.
    Where judgbeen quashing fee billof a clerk, he iiicl not appear, the record ouSilt to shew which court had juristic-tion-
    
      .Mays. Wickliffe and Wooley, for plaintiff; Cowcin §.nd Uaggin, for defendant.
   Chief Justice Robertson

delivered the Opinion of (he Court.

At the instance of William Hays, the defendant in error, the circuit judge of Favette gave judgment in his favor against the plaintiff in error, as clerk of the county court of said county, for the amount of a fee hill exhibited by the defendant, and purporting to have been issued by the plain-.¡A? 1 1 a j r

There seems to have been no appearance by the plaintiff in error until after the judge had taken time and was in the act of rendering judgment. We cannot, therefore, presume that any fact was proved or admitted after such appearance. Consequently, so far as the question of jurisdiction is concerned, the principle settled in Tevis vs. Craig, VI Mon. 7, must he decisive This record does not shew that the defendant in error resided in Fayette county.

Wherefore, for want of record evidence of a fact," indispensable to the jurisdiction of the circuit judge, the judgment is reversed.