40 Ky. 149 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1840
delivered the Opinion of the Court.
The object of Outon’s bill was to subject the upper ferry and home farm of Lewis to sale, in satisfaction of the lien which he held upon them, and also to set aside a conveyance of the lower ferry to Portwood, as trustee, for the use of Lewis’ -wife and children, and subject it to sale, in case it was necessary in satisfaction of his debt. To obtain this end it was necessary to bring other incumbrancers before the Court, in order as well to ascertain
Cases have occurred in which this Court has exercised jurisdiction when the decree below was merely interlocutory, where the parties have entered an agreement on record to treat the decree as final, with a view to a revision upon the matters settled in the interlocutor: Jame-
No consent or agreement to the exercise of jurisdiction has been made in this case, nor can any be implied against the express objection made by one of the parties, though he has brought the case here. Consent, to give jurisdiction, requires the concurrence of both parties, when either may object. And though the writ of error has been improperly sued out, no implication of consent should be indulged which would deprive the party who sues it out of a legal right, and especially when the opposite party has never yielded his consent in a form that would preclude him from raising the objection, at any time, in this Court. The consent to give jurisdiction to this Court, in such a case, should be a mutual agreement, equally obligatory on both parties.
It is therefore the opinion of the Court, that the writ of error be dismissed, at the costs of the plaintiff, and the cross errors be also dismissed at the costs of the defendants.