Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 1827

Cummins v. Canter

Cummins v. Canter
Court of Appeals of Kentucky · Decided October 6, 1827 · Owsley
21 Ky. 493; 5 T.B. Mon. 493; 1827 Ky. LEXIS 193

Cummins v. Canter

Opinion of the Court

Judge Owsley

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The 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.

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

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