Case Name: NOWELL &c. vs. SMITH &c.
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1823-06-20
Citations: 3 Litt. 470
Docket Number: 
Parties: NOWELL &c. vs. SMITH &c.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 13
Pages: 470–471

Head Matter:
June 20.
NOWELL &c. vs. SMITH &c.
A writ bf error on a judgment of the Harrison circuit court.
^Statement
Bibb, for plaintiffs in error; Hardiníov defendants.
Where a decree of the inferior court is reversed by ihe court of appeals, but on principles which do not deprive the complainants of any of the land which ihe inferior court had decreed them, the decree as to rents under the occupying claimant laws, takes date from the time it was first pronounced in the inferior court.

Opinion:
Opinion op the Court.
ALTHOUGH the decree first, pronounced by the circuit court, in favor of the validity of the plaintiffs' claim, was reversed by the decree of this court, yet, as by this court's decree the plaintiffs' claim was sustained for all the land comprehended by the decree of the circuit court, and upon which rents and improvements were afterwards assessed by the commissioners appointed under the law concerning occupying claimants,, it was correct in the commissioners to make the charge in favour of the plaintiffs for rents, commence at the date at which the circuit court first pronounced a decree in favor of the validity of the .plaintiffs' claim; as. was bol den by this court, in the case of Webb vs. Galoway's heirs, 2 Marshall Rep. 485.
It was consequently incorrect m the court below to curtail the charge contained in the commissioners' report for rent, so as to make the rent commence from the date of the decree which was pronounced by the circuit court after the cause returned from this court.
The judgment and proceedings subsequent to the commissioners' report, must, therefore, he reversed with costs, the cause remanded to the court below, and a judgment there entered on the report in conformity to this opinion.