Case Name: Mary F. Cord, &c. v. M. E. Reeves & Co.
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1872-01-31
Citations: 4 Ky. Op. 694
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mary F. Cord, &c. v. M. E. Reeves & Co.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Opinions, containing the unreported opinions of the Court of Appeals
Volume: 4
Pages: 694–695

Head Matter:
Mary F. Cord, &c. v. M. E. Reeves & Co.
Judgment — Action to Set Aside — Want of Process.
Where there is no process served on the wife, the husband has no power to consent to a judgment against her, to subject her property to sale.
APPEAL PROM PLEMING CIRCUIT COURT.
January 31, 1872.

Opinion:
Opinion op the Court by
Judge Pryor :
In this case there was no service of process on either of the defendants. The husband had no power to consent to a judgment in personam against the wife • and to subject her property to sale under an execution upon such a judgment. Nor has he the power to say that the judgment shall be rendered against the firm as such. There is nothing in the record giving him this authority from Miss Dupuy, who is a co-défendant with his wife. The whole proceeding is erroneous.' If the confidence of counsel for the appellees has been misplaced or betrayed, it is his own misfortune, and he is without remedy in this court upon the facts presented in the record. The judgment is reversed and cause remanded with directions to the court below to set aside the judgment and award to appellants a new trial and for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
Cord, Huston, Johnson, for appellants.
Throop, for appellees.