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LEE v. KASH

Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Jan 16, 1951
234 S.W.2d 948 (Ky. Ct. App. 1951)

Opinion

December 5, 1950. Rehearing Denied January 16, 1951.

Ervine Turner, Judge.

Tommie Lee, and others, brought an action against A.B. Kash, Clerk of Wolfe Circuit Court, and the Sheriff of Wolfe County, to enjoin defendants from proceeding under nunc pro tunc judgment entered by the Judge of the Wolfe Circuit Court. The Circuit Court, Wolfe County, Ervine Turner, J., sustained a demurrer to the Petition and the petitioners appealed. The Court of Appeals, Cammack, J., held that entry of the nunc pro tunc judgments was warranted.

Judgment affirmed.

Elmer C. Roberts and F.T. Allen for appellants.

J. Douglas Graham, I.M. Combs, A.E. Funk, Attorney General, and Zeb A. Stewart, Assistant Attorney General, for appellees.


Affirming.

In March, 1949, we refused to take jurisdiction of three Commonwealth cases in which Swannie Coomer was the appellant and one in which Tommie Lee was the appellant, because none of the records contained a judgment. Subsequently, the judge of the Wolfe Circuit Court entered a nunc pro tunc judgment in each of the cases. In the present action Lee and Coomer sought to enjoin the sheriff and clerk of Wolfe County from proceeding under the nunc pro tunc judgments, and also to have those judgments set aside. The appeal is from a judgment sustaining a demurrer to the petition.

The petition recites the proceedings in this Court in the Commonwealth cases. It is alleged also that the nunc pro tunc judgments were entered in violation of the Civil Code of Practice. There is no allegation of facts, however, stating in what manner the judgments were void, nor as to why the court was without jurisdiction to enter them. The records in the Commonwealth cases show that those trials were regular in all respects except for the entry of the judgments upon the verdicts of guilty. Therefore, in the absence of any contrary showing, there were sufficient memoranda to warrant the entry of the nunc pro tunc judgments.

Judgment affirmed.


Summaries of

LEE v. KASH

Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Jan 16, 1951
234 S.W.2d 948 (Ky. Ct. App. 1951)
Case details for

LEE v. KASH

Case Details

Full title:Lee et al. v. Kash et al

Court:Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Date published: Jan 16, 1951

Citations

234 S.W.2d 948 (Ky. Ct. App. 1951)
234 S.W.2d 948