Case ID: ky_147/html/0849-01.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

Combs, et al. v. Bates.
    (Decided April 23, 1912.)
    Appeal from Knott Circuit Court.
    Appeals — (Party Accepting Satisfaction of Judgment May Appeal.— The appellant may accept satisfaction of the judgment and still prosecute an appeal from it where he recovers only part of his claim.
    H. H. SMITH' and B. F. COMBS for appellant.
    O’REAR & WILLIAMS for appellee.
   Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson—

On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.

Section 757 of the Civil Code, among other things, provides:

“But when a party recovers judgment for only a part of the demand or property he sues for, the enforcement of such judgment shall not prevent him from prosecuting an appeal therefrom as to so much of the demand or property sued for that he did not recover.

Before this amendment to the Code was made; it was held that a party who accepted satisfaction of a judgment could not appeal from it. The purpose of the. amendment ivas to change the rule. For, manifestly, if the appellant may enforce the judgment, he may accept satisfaction from the appellee, without losing his right to appeal. To enforce the judgment is to accept satisfaction of it.

The motion to dismiss the appeal is overruled.