Case ID: ky_123/html/0836-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Chief Justice Hobson", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case 113. — MOTION BY ¡PLAINTIFF FOR DAMAGES ON A SUPERSEDEAS BOND — MOTION MADE IN APPELLATE COURT. — Motion Sustained.
    Nelson County v. City of Bardstown.
    1. Appeal — Dismissal—Damages—Damages will be awarded on a supersedeas, where the appeal is dismissed for .want of jurisdiction and the judgment was for the payment of money.
    2. Same — Failure to award o damages on a supersedeas, where the appeal was dismissed, was only a clerical error, and'may be corrected on motion, although the time for filing the petition for rehearing has expired.
    3. Same — Where a county or other municipality supersedes a judgment, and appeals, damages will be ¡awarded on dismissal for want of jurisdiction, though it might be impracticable to collect the judgment.
    For former judgment see 121 Ky.
    NAT W. HALSTEAD and GREENE & VANWINKLE for appellant.
    ít. C. CHERRY and G. S. & J. A. FULTON for appellee/
   Opinion by

Chief Justice Hobson

Sustaining.

On September 27,1906, this appeal was dismissed for want of jurisdiction, and on November 27th a motion was entered for damages on the supersedeas.

Damages will be awarded on a supersedeas, where the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. American Accident Company v. Slaughter, 101 Ky. 269, 19 Ky. Law Rep., 418, 40 S. W. 675. The failure to award damages when the appeal was dismissed was only a clerical error, and may be corrected on motion, as any other clerical error, although the time for filing the petition for rehearing has expired.

Where a county or other municipality supersedes a judgment, and appeals, damages will be awarded as against any other litigant, although it might be impracticable to collect the judgment on execution against the county. The right to damages depends upon the character of the judgment superseded, and, the judgment in this ease being for the payment of money, damages may be awarded.

Motion sustained.