Case ID: ky_42/html/0467-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Marshall", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wilson vs Ayres.
    Error to the Jefferson Circuit.
    Covenant.
    
      Case 125.
    
    
      May 23.
    
      Fry Page for plaintiff: Pilcher for defendant.
    Where there are two counts in a declaration, one good the other bad, and separate demurrers to each,the one should be sustained and the other overruled. Yetifboth counts be for the same cause of action on the same covj enant, and one count be good, and judgment be for one cause of action only, it will not be reversed.
    
      Declaration. Demurrer. Counts. Pleading.
   Judge Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Although upon a separate demurrer to each of two counts, one of which is good and the other bad, the demurrer should be sustained as to one count and overruled as to the other — yet as it is obvious in this case that both counts are for the same cause of action, on the same covenant, and that the judgment is rendered for one cause of action only, which is sufficiently stated in one count, we are of opinion that even if the other count be fatally defective, the good count should be deemed sufficient to sustain the judgment. And that if there be technical error in overruling the demurrer as to both, that error has occasioned no such prejudice to the defendant as would authorize a reversal of the judgment.

Wherefore, the judgment is affirmed.