Legal Opinion

Rankin v. Barnes

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided April 17, 1868PublishedCited by 2 opinions

CARE 3 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM HARRISON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— Revised Statutes, 1 Stanton, sec. 18, p. 468. Greenleaf on Ev., sec. 506, fyc. 3 Bibb, 369; Stephenson vs. Bannister.

1Opinion of the Court

JUDGE ROBERTSON

delivered the opinion of the court:

The record of the Indiana judgment in the appellee’s favor against the appellant is sufficiently authenticated for sustaining this action upon it in the circuit court for Harrison county, Kentucky; and, though the judgment is apparently harsh and erroneous, yet, not being revisable by this court, it must operate as valid and conclusive until reversed in Indiana.

But the appellant’s separate suit against the appellee in Indiana, on their contract of assignment, never having been tried on its merits, the simple dismission of it for alleged want…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Bailey v. Great Western Oil Co.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1927
  2. Rose v. Northwest Fire & Marine Ins.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon · 1896

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