Case Name: Fleming vs. Campbell
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1829-06-13
Citations: 1 J.J. Marsh. 499
Docket Number: 
Parties: Fleming vs. Campbell.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 499–499

Head Matter:
Fleming vs. Campbell.
Petition, &c
Case 135.
Error to the Woodford Circuit; W. L. Kedlit, Judge.
Petition and Summons. Statute.
June 13.
Petition and summons can only be maintained upon notes or bonds, for the direct payment of money. Bank notes not money.
Haggin and Loughborough, for plaintiff.

Opinion:
Judge Underwood,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
An action by petition and summons, cannot"be sustained upon á covenant to pay "one hundred dollars in United States notes on the Bank at New-Orleans," because the provisions of the statute giving the remedy and the adjudications of this court, as to the class of cases not embraced by the act, exclude the present. Bank notes are not money. The summary remedy by petition is confined expressly to notes or bonds for the direct payment of money. See Loudon vs. Kenney, 1 Bibb, 330; Chambers vs. George, 5 Litt. 335.
Judgment reversed. The plaintiff must recover his costs.