Case ID: johns_15/html/0119-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hoghtaling against Osborn.
    Whereajüíy has been impannelled before Sunday commences, their verdict may be received on Sunday? but in a trial in a justice’s court, the justice cannot en« ter judgment on the verdict on that day.
    IN error on certiorari to a justice’s court.
    The defendant in error brought an action in the court below against the plaintiff in error, and a verdict was found for the defendant in error. It appeared, however, that the verdict was received, and the judgment rendered on Sunday.
    
   Per Curiam.

It was proper to receive the verdict, presuming that the jury were impannelled before Sunday commenced ; but it was illegal to enter the judgment on Sunday, and for. that cause it must be reversed.

Judgment reversed.