Ross v. Ross
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 17 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM GARRARD CIRCUIT COURT. cited 3 Johns. Ch. Rep., 399 ; 8 B. Mon., 28, 29; lb., 538; 5 B. Mon., 318; 3 Lilt., 115, 117; 4 Mon., 488; 4/. J. Mar., 87; act of 1798, 2 Slat. Law, 852; Rev. Stat., cha:p. 53, sec. 3; section 661 of first draft of Civil Code; Civil Code, sec. 875 ; lb., sec. 14. cited Civil Code, secs. 14, 106; Clemmens vs. Yail, MS. opin., Dec., 1856; 2 Metcalfe, 96.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Stites
delivered the-opinion oe the court:
The only important point presented by this record is, whether, since the enactment of the 14th section of the Civil Code, a defendant in an action, who has permitted judgment by default and who has paid off and satisfied the same upon execution, can afterwards maintain an action in equjity against the plaintiff, for usury embraced in said judgment ?
The section supra is as follows :
“Sec. 14. A judgment obtained in an action by ordinary proceedings, shall not be annulled or modified by any order in an action by equitable proceedings, except for a defense which…
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