Case Name: Fenn vs. Ringo
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1831-06-17
Citations: 6 J.J. Marsh. 227
Docket Number: 
Parties: Fenn vs. Ringo.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 29
Pages: 227–228

Head Matter:
Fenn vs. Ringo.
June 17.
Error to the Bath Circuit; Silas W. Robbins, fudge.
Venue, change of. Ejectment. Jurisdiction.
Ejectmen-t.,
Case 57
Where the tenant in possession has not been entered á defendant to an action of e-jectment, he is no part}’, and therefore, notice to him ofapplication for a change of venue, is a, nullity, and / does not ap-a venUe,

Opinion:
Chief Justice Robertson,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This, writ of error is prosecuted in the name of the casual ejector, to reverse a judgment by default in an action of ejectment on the demise of parties. The suit was instituted in the Fleming circuit court, and the judgment was rendered by the Bath circuit court, to which the venue had been changed by order of a circuit judge, by the .application of the defendant or the plaintiff.
As George Muse, the tenant in possession, had not been entered defendant, he was no party, and therefore, fhe notice to him of the application for a change of venue was in law a nullity. III Bibb, 433.
Indeed, it is difficult to conceive how a change venue could be necessary or proper in an action of ejectment, where there is no actual defendant; for if no defendant be made, judgment by default must-be the necessary consequence.
Denny, for plaintiff; Triplett, for defendant.
The order for changing the venue was therefore ineffectual, and the circuit court of Bath had' no j»- ' risdiction.
Wherefore, the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded with instructions to remoye it to the Fleming circuit court.