Hensley v. Lynchburg Shoe Co.
Hensley v. Lynchburg Shoe Co.
Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Affirming.
On September 18, 1920, the appellee and defendant below, Lynchburg Shoe Company, obtained a judgment against the appellant and plaintiff below, May Hensley, and her husband, Clarence Hensley, for $375.00 with interest which was the unpaid part of a note executed by
Afterwards this equity action was filed by Mrs. Hensley alone against the defendant claiming that the corrected judgment was itself incorrect in that it ordered to be sold and the commissioner had conveyed to defendant a tract of land belonging to her individually and upon which it had no lien to secure the note it had previously sued on, and that the deed by the master commissioner cast a cloud upon her title to that portion of land claimed by her and prayed that it be cancelled to that extent. The answer was a denial and a plea of res judicata. Evidence was taken and upon submission the court dismissed the petition, but set aside the original sale and ordered' a resale of the land described in the corrected judgment, and complaining of that action of the court plaintiff prosecutes this appeal.
Passing by what may be termed irregularity in the proceedings from beginning to end, including the insti
Under the proof, we seriously doubt if the deed from Lyons to the Hensleys, as originally made, was as is now contended, since such contention was never relied on in the case in which the judgment was obtained, notwithstanding that case was bitterly fought by the Hensleys, who were defendants therein, one branch of it coming to this court and was decided against them in the case of Lynchburg Shoe Company v. Clarence and Mary Hensley, 186 Ky. 769. So that, the matters now relied on in this case seem to be an afterthought resorted to after all other efforts to defeat the judgment in the original case had failed. In addition, it is shown by the evidence in this case that the 50 acres, which plaintiff claims was the only part of the tract in lien to secure the note, was worth at the time of the purchase not exceeding $100.00, when the note as originally executed was for $500.00, with $50.00 cash paid at the time, making the total consideration of the land for which the note was executed in part payment, the sum of $550.00. But apart from that, plaintiff had a hearing upon the issue she now seeks to litigate upon the occasion of the hearing of the motion to correct the judgment under which the land was sold. If she was dissatisfied with that correction because there was more land ordered to be sold than was proper, she could have appealed therefrom. At that hearing oral testimony was heard, as appears from the record, and
The judgment so held and it is affirmed.
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