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21 Ky. 493

Cummins v. Canter

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided October 6, 1827

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1827-10-06

<p> Jurisdiction. </p> <p>Circuit Judge in chancery sotting has no jurisdiction to enjoin a judgment for less than five pounds.</p>

Decided 1827-10-06

Judge Owsley

¶1delivered the Opinion of the Court.

¶2The judgment enjoined by the decree of the court below, in this case, is for less than live pounds, and the sum in contest, therefore, not cognizable in the circuit court, and by the express provisions of the act of assembly upon that subject, *494should not have been enjoined by the decree of that court.

Caperlon, for plaintiff; Turner, for defendant.

¶3The decree must be reversed with cost, the cause remanded to the court below, and the hill there dismissed.

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