Case Name: Moorman vs. Beauchamp
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1868-10-10
Citations: 4 Bush 145
Docket Number: 
Parties: Moorman vs. Beauchamp.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 67
Pages: 145–146

Head Matter:
CASE 31 — PETITION EQUITY
OCTOBER 10.
Moorman vs. Beauchamp.
APPEAL FROM DAVIESS CIRCUIT COURT.
1. A denial in an answer, which is not such as the Code requires, dispenses with extraneous proof.
2. An affirmative allegation in an answer, that the lien attempted to be enforced by the plaintiff, had been waived, is not of itself proof of such alleged waiver.
James Weir, For Appellant.
Sweeney & Stdart, For Appellee,
CTTED—
13 B. Mon.. 412; Wilson, fyc., vs. Soper.

Opinion:
JUDGE ROBERTSON
delivered the opinion of the court:
The justice of this case is rather vexatiously obscured by the absence of all evidence, except what may be inferred from the petition and answer, on which alone the judgment was rendered in favor of the appellee as a substituted creditor of the partnership property.
The denial of his judgment and execution is not such as the Code required; and, therefore, the answer dispenses with extraneous proof.
The sale by the partner Fletcher of his interest in the firm-may have waived his lien as partner, so as to preclude the appellee's subrogation thereto over Fletcher's individual creditors; but there is no proof of any such waiver of the lien of the other partner, Burks. The affirmative allegation to that effect in the answer is not itself proof, and is unsustained by any other evidence.
Consequently, as there is no proof of any waiver of Burks' lien, the appellee appears to be entitled, by substitution, to the benefit of it; and, on this ground, the judgment seems to be right, and is, therefore, affirmed.