Lillard v. Brannin & Brand
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 94 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE LAW AND EQUITY COURT. 1. Under the general prayer for relief, the court can not grant other relief than that specifically prayed for. (Hansford v. Holdam, 14 Bush, 210; Howland Coal and Iron Works v. Brown, 13 Bush, 681.) 2. A special bailiff has no authority outside of the county in which he was appointed.
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Case 94 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE LAW AND EQUITY COURT. 1. Under the general prayer for relief, the court can not grant other relief than that specifically prayed for. (Hansford v. Holdam, 14 Bush, 210; Howland Coal and Iron Works v. Brown, 13 Bush, 681.) 2. A special bailiff has no authority outside of the county in which he was appointed. (Civil Code, sec. 48.) 1. The Union Gas Company and John W. and O. C. Bichardson were necessary parties in order to determine the appellees’ title to two-thirds of the five hundred shares of stock in controversy, and as they were properly…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PRYOR
delivered the opinion of the court.
John W. and O. C. Richardson obtained leases of gas and oil rights in lands bordering upon the Ohio *513river in the county of Meade,, and, with a view of utilizing their leases, organized a corporation with a capital stock of a half million of dollars. They en tered into some arrangement with the appellant, Lillard, by which they agreed if he and his associates would raise a certain amount of money to enable them to begin operations, they would transfer and deliver to them fifty thousand dollars of the stock. Lillard applied to the appellees, Brannin…
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