KRS 412.090: Assignment of right of action to surety paying judgment.

If the surety pays any part of a judgment he shall have a right to an assignment of the

judgment from the plaintiff or the plaintiff's attorney, in whole or in part. When the

plaintiff has been fully satisfied, the assignment shall give the surety the righ t to sue out

or use any existing execution or otherwise control the judgment for his own benefit,

against the other defendants, so far as to obtain satisfaction from the principal for the

whole amount so paid by him, with interest, or from any cosurety his proper part of such

payment, according to KRS 412.080. This assignment shall also transfer to the sureties so

paying the benefit of any lien existing under or by virtue of the judgment, and the right of

assignment shall exist, though the money was made or secured by sale of the property of

the surety under execution.