Case ID: njl_44/html/0164-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Knapp, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE, KELLER, PROSECUTOR, v. THOMAS McGRATH.
    The issuing of an execution is a proceeding entirely distinct from tlie judgment, and irregularities in the issuing of the execution cannot affect the judgment in anywise.
    On certiorari to remove judgment of a justice of the peace.
    Argued at November Term, 1881, before Justices Knapp and Dixon.
    For the plaintiff in certiorari, H. Traphagen.
    
    For the defendant, M. T. Newbold.
    
   The opinion of the court was delivered by

Knapp, J.

The judgment which is here questioned seems to be entirely regular. There was jurisdiction in the justice over the subject matter and of the parties, and nothing irregular or illegal in the trial and proceedings is apparent.

The attack ostensibly made against the judgment is really against the regularity of the execution which issued under the judgment. Issuing execution is a proceeding entirely distinct from the judgment. Krumeick v. Krumeick, 2 Green 39.

Irregularities in its issue cannot affect the judgment in anywise, however great the irregularities or errors may be. For aught that appears, the judgment must be affirmed.