Case Name: Buchanan, &c., v. Boyd's Exor
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1909-01-20
Citations: 131 Ky. 433
Docket Number: 
Parties: Buchanan, &c., v. Boyd’s Exor.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 131
Pages: 433–438

Head Matter:
CASE 48. — ACTION BY R. BOYD AGAINST NATHAN BUCHANAN AND ANOTBÉER.
January 20.
Buchanan, &c., v. Boyd’s Exor.
Appeal from Whitley Circuit court.
From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal, making plaintiff’s executor a party, and the executor moves to dismiss the appeal.
Motion denied.
1. Appeal and Error — Necessary Parties — Decedents.—Decedent's real representatives are necessary parties to an appeal from a judgment awarding him land.
2. Appeal and Error — Review—Absence of Necessary Parties— Effect. — The Supreme Court will not pass on the merits of an appeal on motion to dismiss where necessary parties are not before the court.
ON REHEARING.
3. Appeal and Error — Parties to Appeal — Deatn of Party. — Revival — Proceedings.—Civil Code of Practice, section 745, declares that an appeal shall be granted only within two years next after the right to appeal first accrued. Section 734 provides that an appeal .shall be granted as a matter of right by the clerk of the Court of Appeals on application of either party on filing with the clerk a copy of the judgment from wnieh he appeals. Section 739 requires the appellant to file with the transcript a statement showing the names of the appellants and appellees, and section. 740' declares that no appeal shall be docketed until such statement is filed. Held, that, where complainant recovered a judgment for a tract of land and died, whereupon defendants filed with the clerk of the Court of Appeals, a copy of the judgment, and a statement for an appeal designating the deceased plaintiff and his executor -as appellees, within two .years, the appeal was not subject to dismissal because appellant’s statement did not designate as appellees the devisees of the deceased plaintiff, since, under section 767, the proper procedure was for appellant to file a copy of the judgment, have the appeal granted, and within one year thereafter revive the action -against the real repres-ntatives of the deceased plaintiff in-the Court of Appeals by suggesting the death, filing a copy of decedent’s will with a statement of the- names of the devisees, and taking out process against them.
TYE & SILER for appellants.
H. C. CLAY for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion op the Court by
Judge Hobson
Overruling motion to dismiss.
R, Boyd recovered a judgment against Nathan Buchanan, etc., for a tract of land. After the recovery of the judgment, Boyd died, and after his death, and within two years from the entry of the judgment, Buchanan, etc., sued out an appeal from it in this court, making R. Boyd and R. Boyd, Jr., as his executor, parties appellee. The executor has entered-a motion to dismiss the appeal. In response to this •motion appellant relies on Hopkins v. Hopkins, 91 Ky. 310, 15 S. W. 854, 12 Ky. Law Rep. 945; Magee v. Frazier, 51 S. W. 174, 21 Ky. Law Rep. 254. He also insists that R. Boyd, Jr., is one of the real representatives of R. Boyd, and that as to him at least the motion should be overruled. In the cases cited there was an appeal from a personal judgment. The executor was the 'only necessary party appellee. Here we have a real action, and the real representatives of the deceased are necessary parties to the appeal.. "We can not know from the record what are the provisions of R. Boyd's will, and in whom it vests his title to the land in contest. It may he devised to the executor or to strangers to his blood. There is nothing to show that R. Boyd, Jr., is one of his devisees or heirs at law. If the facts are not shown by the record, the grounds of a motion to dismiss must be pleaded. Civil Code of Practice, sections 757, 758. When Robert Boyd, Sr. died, his title to the land descended to his heirs at law, or to his devisees as the case may be, and their rights will not be affected by the judgment rendered on the appeal unless they are parties to it. The necessary facts for the determination of the pending motion not being shown by the record must, to be available, be pleaded. The necessary parties, if there are others, must be brought before the court, if they are to be affected by the appeal. The court will not now pass on any of the questions raised finally; for it is not proper'to adjudge the matters before the necessary parties are before the court, or the facts necessary to determine the case are shown.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is on present showing overruled