Legal Opinion

Cessna v. Stedman

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided September 23, 1864Published

CASE 17 — FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER cited 3 Met., 251 ; Civil Code, sec. 767; 3 Bibb, 100 ; 9 B. M., 239 ; 7 J. J. M., 252; 1 Dana, 227; 2 Bibb, 431 ; 3 Mon., 263; 4 Bibb, 501; 1 J. J. M., 45; 1 Marsh., 54.

1Opinion of the Court

JUDGE ROBERTSON

delivered the opinion op the court;

On a traverse to the circuit court of an inquisition on a warrant of forcible entry and detainer, issued by the police judge of Hodgensville, in Larue county, the court quashed the warrant and dismissed the case, on the assumed ground that the police judge had no jurisdiction, and that, therefore, the warrant was void. That judgment presents the only question for consideration on this appeal

The statute of 1853-4 (Session Acts, 274), which created the office of police judge in Hodgensville, provides that “he shall have concurrent jurisdiction…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Johnson v. ErwineCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1860
  2. Arthur v. GreenCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1860

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