Case ID: ky_41/html/0042-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Chief Justice Robertson", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Calk vs Francis’ Administrator.
    'Chancery.
    
      Case 19.
    Appeal prom the Montgomery Circuit.
    
      Chancery. Bonds of indemnity.
    
    
      September 23.
    In a proceeding in chancery under the statute of 1827 for the sale of the lands of a non-resident, the execution of a bond of indemnity such as required by the statute, at a term subsequent to that at which the decree is rendered, will not cure the error committed by the court in renderingthe decree before the execution of ..the bond, it is not a clerical inisprisi#n.
   Chief Justice Robertson

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

At the term of the Circuit Court subsequent to that at which an appeal had been granted and an appeal bond executed for reversing a decree for selling anon-resident’s land, in a proceeding under the statute of 1827, (1 StaL Law, 99,) the Circuit Judge permitted the complainants to execute and file a bond for indemnifying all persons who might be injured by the decree—no such bond (as required by the statute) having been filed or executed before the decree was rendered, or during the term at which it was rendered.

The decree, as rendered and appealed from, was certainly erroneous, as the statutory bond had not been required or given. But the bond, executed at a subsequent .term, being brought up by certiorari, the question is, did the execution of that bond cure the error in the decree? We think not.

Peters for appellant; Apperson for appellees.

The omission to require the bond cannot be deemed, a misprision, amendable after the parties were, in consequence of the appeal, out of the Circuit Court; nor had that Court any jurisdiction to correct the decree when the bond was executed and filed. The error in the decree was fatal and could not be corrected at a term subsequent to the appeal taken to reverse it.

Decree reversed and cause remanded.