Case Name: BALTZELL vs. HICKMAN
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1823-11-25
Citations: 4 Litt. 265
Docket Number: 
Parties: BALTZELL vs. HICKMAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 265–265

Head Matter:
BALTZELL vs. HICKMAN.
From the Franklin Circuit Court, the Hon. Henry Davidge sole Judge.
Monroe, for plaintiff; Sioigert, for defendant.
Nov. 25.
Where the verdict in as-sumpsit is for more damages than are laid in the declaration, judgment must be rendered for ivhat is laid in the declaration.

Opinion:
Opinion of the Coukt by
Judge Mills.
THE court below, after the execution of a writ of inquiry in assumpsit, rendered judgment for the amount assessed, which was twenty-eight dollars more than the amount of damages laid in the writ and declaration, when, if the damages exceeded those laid, the court-ought to have rendered judgment for the amount laid, and no more.
" The judgment must, therefore,be reversed with costs, and the cause remanded that judgment may there be rendered, according to the principles of this opinion.