Guthrie's Admr. v. Guthrie

2 Ky. Op. 644, 1869 Ky. LEXIS 549

• Court: Court of Appeals of Kentucky
• Decided: March 20, 1869
• Status: Published

Opinion

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Peters :

The verification of the claim of appellee was waived by failing to object to it before the trial, and after judgment the objection comes too late.

Gofer, the first administrator of G. Gnthrie, brought an action for a settlement of the estate of his intestate, pending that action he was removed and Pusey was appointed. After his appointment appellee and the heirs of decedent brought a suit for a settlement of the estate against the second administrator, and that action was consolidated with the one Gofer had previously brought, and in which appellee made her answer a cross-action, and set up her claim for the money for which her slaves-had been sold by her late husband. Pusey, the last administrator, was properly before the court, and failed to answer her cross petition, and Gofer failed to answer while he was administrator. The court below therefore correctly took the same for confessed, and no formal dismissal of the cross bill against the heirs was necessary.

But the judgment allowed interest on the amount recovered from September, 1853, this was erroneous. It is not alleged in the cross-action when the negroes were sold, the husband could use them during the joint lives of himself and wife, and in any event his estate should not be charged with interest until after his death, and we think she should be entitled to interest only from the time she filed her cross-action on the 21st of May, 1863.

Wherefore, the judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded with directions to render judgment for $900, with interest from the 21st of May, 1863, until paid.