Case Name: LIGHTFOOT vs. PAYTON
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1805-04-12
Citations: 1 Hard. 3
Docket Number: 
Parties: LIGHTFOOT vs. PAYTON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 3–3

Head Matter:
LIGHTFOOT vs. PAYTON.
April 12th.
uniting of fe, vc.ai demands which the dif-met coum had. not give tliofe <•»“«» juriflic-
of ch. i, § i, p. *3-,
PAYTON brought a suit in the Danville district court against Lighfoot, in debt, for 60/. and declared on two separate bonds for 30/. each., judgment was rendered by default for the plaintiff in the Lincoln circuit court, to which the cause was transfered on the change of the judiciary system. On a writ .of error, being proSeCUted

Opinion:
The Court decided — That uniting several demands in order to produce a sum of which the district courts had cognizance, is deemed illegal j as without that union, those courts had not jurisdiction of either demand. Wherefore, the first error assigned is adjudged tobe well founded and sufficient to reverse the judgment,..