Case Name: Riney's heirs vs Riney
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1840-10-29
Citations: 1 B. Mon 69
Docket Number: 
Parties: Riney’s heirs vs Riney.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 40
Pages: 69–69

Head Matter:
Riney’s heirs vs Riney.
Case 23.
Error to the Washington County Court.
October 29.
Writs of error. Joint'cmd several rights. Limitation.
Where the interest is joint, the right 10 prosecute a writ of error is also joint-
In such case all must join in the writ, and if one or more be barred by lapse of time, all are barred.
McHenry for plaintiffs; Kelly for defendant.

Opinion:
Chief Justice Robertson
delivered the Opinion of the Court.
The interest of Riney's heirs, in the land which descended to them, being joint, therefore their right to prosecute a writ of error for setting aside the allotment of dower to his widow was also necessarily joint, and not for any purpose several, as it might have been had their interest been several, as in a case of independent legatees or devisees who, not having been made joint parlies in the inferior court, might each have a seperate right to seek the reversal of a County Court order, rejecting the will under which they severally claimed.
And consequently, as all the heirs did not labor under a saving disability, the infants, in whose name alone this writ is prosecuted, cannot avoid the legal operation of the statute of limitations, the adult co-heirs being barred.
Wherefore, the statute being pleaded in this- case, it is considered as adjudged that the writ of error is barred.