Case ID: ky_8/html/0362-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Owsley", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

25 Nov. 1818.
    M’COUN, vs. SHERIFF OF FAYETTE.
    
      On a writ of error to nmrñ¿ a judgment of the Fay* ette county court.
    
    < laiming^in iiis schedule, a debt due 10 the ■he tor should not be t0 ^-acular creditor^ of the insolvent. Tne sum-tU!ydirected to, and serv’d {.y, the sln-’fí. anent (W any) ■jUould be in he name^ of ,:>e sheriff.
   Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion of the court.

This writ of error is brought to recover a judgment rendered against M’Coun, upon a summons issued from the clerk’s office of Fayette, for M’Coun to answer and say ■whether he was indebted to Daniel Gibbs, an insolvent debtor, $340.

The summons having been executed, and M’Coun fail* ⅛ *° appear, after a continuance of one term, judgment was rendered against him by default, for the amount sped-fied in the summons.

The proceedings having been had under the act of this country concerning executions, (1 Littell, 549,) the clerk, no doubt, correctly issued the summons against M’Coun, w*t'30ut l^,,e'n requiring him to answer the complaint of anJ particular creditor.

And as the act no where requires a declaration to be file[^ j|ie C0Urt most clearly, upon the failure of M’Coun to aPP®ar and answer, correctly entered judgment against him for the amount contained in the summons. 1

And although, as the act directs, judgment was entered favor of the sheriff, yet as the sheriff is nowise person* ally interested in the claim against M’Coun, the gummo# was properly directed to, and served by him.

The judgment must be affirmed with cost.