Case Name: Hamlin vs. Stevenson
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1836-11-04
Citations: 4 Dana 597
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hamlin vs. Stevenson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 34
Pages: 597–597

Head Matter:
Hamlin vs. Stevenson.
Appeal front a J. P.
[Mr. Beatty for plaintiff: no appearance for defendant.]
From the Circuit Court for Lewis County.
November 4.
A person is' of full age on the day preceding the 21st anniversary of his birth.
Infancy &- want of prochein amie is not plead-able in abatement after the plaintiff is of age —tbo1 the suit was brought ba fore.

Opinion:
Chief Justice Robertson
delivered the Opinion of the Court,
Hamlin, being twenty-one years old on the day preceding the twenty first anniversary of his birth, was, of course, twenty-one years of age on the day when the plea in abatement was filedj and when the issue upon it was tried.
And therefore, as he then had a right to prosecute his suit in his own name, without the intervention of a prochein amie, the plea that he was an infant when he brought the suit, was not available for abating the suit.
And, moreover, had the plea been sustained, the Circuit Court erred in rendering a judgment in bar of the Suit.
Wherefore, the judgment must be reversed, and the eause remanded with instructions to render a judgment for Hamlin, on the verdict for nine dollars.