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158 Ky. 680

Rice v. Blair

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided May 1, 1914

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1914-05-01

<p>Appeal from Johnson Circuit Court.</p>

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1992

1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““As the word ‘year’ means a calendar year, it is immaterial that the year 1912 was leap year.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including In Re Johnson v. State

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Decided 1914-05-01

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¶1*681Opinion by

Chief Justice Hobson

¶2Overruling Motion to Dismiss Appeal.

¶3The judgment appealed from was rendered November 18,1911; the appeal was sued out November 17,1913. A plea of limitation has been filed on the ground that the year 1912 was leap year and that more than two periods of 365 days elapsed from the judgment to the granting of the appeal. But section 452, Kentucky Statutes, provides:

¶4“The word month shall be construed to mean a calendar month, and the word year, a calendar year.”

¶5By section 745 of the Civil Code, “An appeal shall not be granted except within two years next after the right to appeal first accrued.”

¶6As the word year means a calendar year it is immaterial that the year 1912 was leap year. The fact that a prior appeal was dismissed does not affect the right to prosecute this appeal sued out in due time.

¶7The motion to dismiss the appeal is, therefore, overruled.

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