Case Name: Morgan vs. Froth and Needles
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1829-02-04
Citations: 1 J.J. Marsh. 94
Docket Number: 
Parties: Morgan vs. Froth and Needles.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 94–94

Head Matter:
Morgan vs. Froth and Needles.
Debt.
Case 28.
Error to the general court; John.JU Bridges, Judge.
General court. Jurisdiction. Statute. Interest.
February 4.
Since the act of 1825, the general court has no jurisdiction for a less sum than $500.
It is error to give judgment for interest upon a note, executed in another state, unless the rate of interest is proved.
Mayes, for plaintiff; Combs, for defendant.

Opinion:
Judge Robertson,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
An action of debt was brought in this case, in the general court, on a note executed in Philadelphia, for $¡110 5S. The writ issued.in November, 1825, and judgment by default, was rendered by the court, for the principal and six percent interest, from the time the note was payable.
There is manifest error in this judgment.
Since the passage of the act of assembly of January, 1825, regulating the jurisdiction of the general court, that court could not take cognizance of this suit. And if it could, it erred in giving judgment for interest without proof, ascertaining the rate of interest in Pennsylvania, because, the lex loci contractees must govern, when no other place than that where the contract is made, is designated for its execution.
Judgment, therefore, reversed with costs.