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4 Ky. Op. 367

Thomas v. Sizemore

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided October 26, 1870

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1870-10-26

<p>Injunction — Dissolution—Dismissal of Petition.</p> <p>When, on the dissolution of an injunction hy the lower court, the petition is dismissed, a Judge of the Appellate Court has no. power to re-instate the injunction.</p> <p>Principal and! Surety — Limitation—Assignment of Judgment.</p> <p>The assignment of a judgment on.a note will not operate to arrest the running of the statute of limitations in favor of a surety, though the assignee may not have known that the creditor w<as not the principal in the note, hut only a surety.</p>

Decided 1870-10-26

¶1■ Opinion oe the Court by

Judge Peters :

¶2When the injunction was dissolved, the petition was dismissed, which made it a final judgment, and a judge of this court has no authority to reinstate an injunction when the case was finally disposed of. ...

¶3It is clearly established by the evidence that appellant was only *368the surety in tbe note upon which the original action was brought, and more than seven years having elapsed without suing out an execution on the judgment, was exonerated from the payment of the debt under the statute, 2 B. 8., 400.

Vance, fot' appellant.Sizemore, for appellee.

¶4Nor can the fact that the judgment had been assigned to appellee who may not have known that appellant was not a principal in the note, prevent his exoneration, as was ruled by this court in Day vs. Billingsley, 3 Bush, 157.

¶5Wherefore the judgment must be reversed, and the cause remanded with directions to render judgment perpetuating appellant’s injunction, and-for further proceedings consistent herewith.

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