Case Name: Rutledge v. Farrar
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1869-01-27
Citations: 6 Bush 491
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rutledge v. Farrar.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 69
Pages: 491–492

Head Matter:
Case 53 — PETITION ORDINARY —
January 27.
Rutledge v. Farrar.
APPEAL PROM JEFFERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
1. An assistant constable, appointed under the provisions of the acts of 1854 and 1868, for Woods’s district in Jefferson County, might act as a constable in the city of Louisville in said county.
2. The constable of the third district in the city of Louisville was not entitled to the said office for Woods’s district in Jefferson County, and consequently was not authorized to proceed against the assistant constable of Woods’s district, to prevent him from usurping the office of constable in said district.
For Appellant.
CITED
Civil Code, secs. 529, 532, 536, 537, 533.
Cons, of Ky., art. 4, sec. 34; art. 6, sec. 5; art. 8, sec. 11.
2 Session Acts, 1853-4, page 374.
2 Session Acts, 1867-8, page 405.
1 Met. 138, Stokes v. Kirkpatrick.
2 Met. 493, Patterson v. Miller.
O. F. Stirman,..........For Appellee,
CITED
2 Acts of 1853-4, page 374. 2 Acts of 1867-8, page 405.
Civil Code, section 532.

Opinion:
JUDGE HARDIN
delivered the opinion of the court.
If the order of the Jefferson. County Court, made under the provisions of the acts of 1854 and 1868, appointing the appellee an assistant constable for the district called Woods's precinct, in Jefferson County, was such as to constitute him a civil officer within the meaning of the constitution, if he was eligible to the office in that district, it does not import an appointment of the appellee to the office of constable for the third district in the city of Louisville, to which the appellant was entitled, although, as an incident to said appointment, the appellee might act as a constable in the city of Louisville.
It seems to us therefore that whether or not the commonwealth might have maintained this action against the appellee, under the provisions of sections 582 of the Civil Code, to prevent him from usurping the office, as the appellant was not entitled to the office of constable for Woods's precinct, he was not authorized to do so, and his petition was properly dismissed.
Wherefore the judgment is affirmed.