Legal Opinion

Rice v. Blair

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided May 1, 1914PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal from Johnson Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the Court

*681Opinion by

Chief Justice Hobson

Overruling Motion to Dismiss Appeal.

The judgment appealed from was rendered November 18,1911; the appeal was sued out November 17,1913. A plea of limitation has been filed on the ground that the year 1912 was leap year and that more than two periods of 365 days elapsed from the judgment to the granting of the appeal. But section 452, Kentucky Statutes, provides:

“The word month shall be construed to mean a calendar month, and the word year, a calendar year.”

By section 745 of the Civil Code, “An appeal shall not be granted except within two years next after the…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. In Re Johnson v. StateArizona Supreme Court · 1939
  2. Anthony Joseph Yokley v. Anthony Belaski, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1992
  3. Tate's Administratrix v. Bryan-Hunt Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1935

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