Case Name: Curle vs. Moor
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1833-10-29
Citations: 1 Dana 445
Docket Number: 
Parties: Curle vs. Moor.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 31
Pages: 445–446

Head Matter:
Curle vs. Moor.
Assumtsit.
October 29.
No action at law lies against a foreign administrator, who has not qualified in this state. The only remedy, if any, is by bill in chancery, upon appropriate facts.
[Mr. Turner for Plaintiff: Mr. Owsley and Mr, Breek for Dofendant.]
From the Circuit Court for Garrard County.

Opinion:
Chief Justice Robertson
deliverer! the Opinion of the Court— in which Judge Nicholas did not concur.
As the plea in this case may he deemed a plea in bar, though not sufficient as a plea in ahátement, and as the matter pleaded may, if available at all, bar the action in this state — the only question for consideration, is the matter of the plea ; and that is, whether a foreign administrator, who was never qualified in this state, is liable, as administrator, to an action at law in any court of this commonwealth. It is the opinion of a majority of the court, (Judge Nicholas dissenting,) that he is not liable to such a suit, according to the common law, or in virtue of any statutory modification of it. And that, if ^íere he any remedy against him here, it is a suit in chancery, on appropriate facts shewing a right in equity to maintain a suit.
Wherefore, as the opinion accords with that of the circuit court, the judgment which this writ of error seeks to reverse, must be affirmed.