Case Name: Trueman vs. Berry
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1846-06-26
Citations: 6 B. Mon 536
Docket Number: 
Parties: Trueman vs Berry.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 45
Pages: 536–537

Head Matter:
Trueman vs Berry.
Error to the Meade Circuit.
Chancery.
Case 119.
The ease stated.
Supersedeas. Executors.
June 26.

Opinion:
Omef Justice Ewing
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a suit in chancery, instituted by Berry, to recover back money from Trueman, collected by the Sher iff, upon an execution on a judgment at law, which 'had been injoined and the injunction erroneously-dissolved by the decree of the Circuit Court, and that decree after-wards reversed by this Court.
'It is the duty 'ot a Sheriff who has collected money upon execution which is superseded, to refund the >msney to the defendant. If he'fails to do so 'he is responsible at law. The plaintiff who had not received it, is not responsible to defendant in the execution, upon a reversal of the judgment on which it was collected.
Cates '$ Lindsey for plaintiff-; Grigsby for defendant.
The decree in -favor o-f the complainants, -we think, •cannot be sustained.
1st. It is certainly to be questioned whether a -Court-of Equity has jurisdiction in the case. But if the jurisdiction be conceded:
2d. It appears that the money collected was m the hands of the Sheriff at the time of the service of the supersedeas from this Court, and no part of it, except the amount which • has been recovered back, has ever 'been -paid over by the Sheriff to Trueman., It was the duty of the Sheriff, upon the service of the-supersedeas from this Court, to refund to Berry the money which he 'had collected, and Berry 'had the same remedy against him and his sureties, to coerce restitution, by the statrate, (1 Stat. Laws, 648,) as plaintiffs have to coerce the payment of money collected by a Sheriff on execution. It being the legal duly of the Sheriff to refund the money collected and remaining in his hands, at the service of the supérsedeasj 'Trueman, the -plaintiff in -the execution, had no legal right or power to coerce the payment to himself, and never having received the same, he is «not responsible to Berry, who can aione look to the Sheriff and his -sureties for restitution.
The decree of the Circuit'Court is, therefore, reversed, and cause remanded, that the complainants bill may be dismissed.