Case ID: ky_3/html/0258-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Edwards, Ch. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SINGLETON vs. LEWIS.
    
    
      April 22nd.
    
    When the matter ef a plea defends^ embracedhy another plea,and ia better form, before entered, the court ought not to receiver.
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    The cause was argued by
    
      Allen for the plaintiff, and Clay for the defendant.
    
      
       Abfent, June* Bibb.
    
   Edwards, Ch. J.

delivered the following opinion of the court :

The plaintiff in the inferior court declared against the defendant for a fraud in the sale of the negro woman in' the declaration mentioned ; the defendant plead the pleas of not guilty, and the statute of limitations ; o'n r, . , . s , which issues were made up.

It is assigned for error, that the court were wrong in another plea tendered by Singleton’s attorney: hut as the matter of that plea was embraced by one as already plead ; and better plead too ; the court were right jn refusing to admit it. But as the fraud in the sale was the. gist of the action, the cause of action accrued on the sale j and, consequently, the court erred in direct* ing the jury, “ That the statute of limitations did not begin to run against the plaintiff’s demand, until th* death of the negro woman aforesaid.”

Judgment reversed, and cause remanded for a new trial.