Case ID: ky-op_3/html/0192-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Robertson:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Crittenden’s Heirs v. Simeon Bush & Others.
    Statute of Limitations — Filing of Suit after Lapse of Five Years.
    Though the limitation of five years for filing suit, after judgment rendered, for setting same aside, has expired, the statute will not begin to run, until after the actual time of discovery of the cause of .action thereon.
    Same — Demurrer.
    A demurrer to such petition should not have been sustained.
    APPEAL FROM PENDLETON CIRCUIT COURT.
    September 28, 1869.
   Opinion of the Court by

Judge Robertson:

The petition alleges facts which if true, show that the judgment of dismission of 1862 was fraudulent, and a petition within five years, to set it aside, is, according to the code, the appropriate remedy. And, although more than five years had elapsed before the filing of this petition, yet the admitted allegation that the cause of action was not discovered until within less than two years, apparently prevents the bar.

And the .reason assigned for the non-discovery sooner is sufficient to repel the imputation of gross negligence.

It seems to this court therefore, that the circuit court ought to have over-ruled the demurrer to the petition and required an answer.

Foote, Carlisle, for appellants.

O’Hara, for appellees.

Wherefore the judgment sustaining demurrer and dismissing the petition is reversed, and the cause remanded.