Case Name: Fulkerson vs. Caldwell
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1829-06-13
Citations: 1 J.J. Marsh. 496
Docket Number: 
Parties: Fulkerson vs. Caldwell.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 496–496

Head Matter:
Fulkerson vs. Caldwell.
Motion.
Case 132.
Error to the Mercer Circuit; William L. Kelly, Judge;
Replevy bond, at whose motion to be quashed for want of .summoning all the defendants in execution.
June 13.
A replevy bond, executed by a part only of the def’ts. in an Execution, may be quashed on motion of plaintiff, but not on motion of obligors in the bond.
Richardson, for plaintiff; Daviess, for defendant.

Opinion:
Judge Underwood
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Since the, case of Skinner, &c. vs. Robinson; Hardin 4, it has bfefen the settled law, that where a judgment was rendered against tw6 or morej and a replevin bond was taken,, leaving out one bf thfe defendants in the judgment, the plaintiff in the judgment may have the bond quashed, on. his motion. In Edwards vs. Greenville, Hardin, 188, it was decided; that where a part O'f the defendants; in a judgment* replevied it, they could not avoid the replevin bond* and this has since befen regarded as settled laws Waiving the question* whether it would be competent for the legislature, by any system bf replevins, to Compel a creditor, withoüt his consent, tb abandon his remedy against any one of his debtors, it may be safely affirmed, that the correct practice is, that the execution should conform to the judgment, and the replevin bond to both. If one defendant is omitted in the replevin bond, the creditor's debt is not So safe.' lie may justly Complain of it, in the absence of positive law, requiring that he shall be content, and for that cause may quash the replevin bond. An act of 1802, limits the time within which motions to quash faulty replevin bonds shall be made. The motion in this Case was friade in time. John Neff, against whom judgment had been rendered, not having been included in, and made a party, to the replevin bond, gave Fulkerson a, right to quash the bond. The circuit court Should not, therefore, have overruled his motiob,- but should have quashed the replevin bond.
Judgment reversed, with directions to quash the replevin bond. The plaintiff must recover costs.