Case ID: ky_39/html/0128-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      The Chief Justice\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Snell vs. The Sheriff of Woodford.
    
      November 23.
    Sheriff’s commissions.
    Motion.
    From the Circuit Court for Woodford County.
    [Mr. Dana for plaintiff: Mr. Kinkead for defendant.]
   The Chief Justice

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The law does not entitle a sheriff to any commissions upon money paid by a defendant to a plaintiff in an execution in his hands for collection, unless the execution had been levied or replevied.

And when a sheriff himself collects the full amount of an execution, he has no legal right to retain his commissions out of the amount .to which the creditor is entitled by his judgment.

Wherefore, as the Circuit Judge in dismissing the motion against the sheriff in this case, must have decided inconsistently with the foregoing propositions, his judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.