Case ID: njl_1/html/0449-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Cur.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE STATE v. STOKES.
    If defendant has no notice of an inquisition of forcible entry and detainer, it is a fatal defect.
    
      
      Certiorari to remove an inquisition of forcible entry and detainer, taken before Justice Hugg.
    The objection taken by Leahe, for the defendant, was, that that no notice had been given to the defendant, Stokes, of the taking the inquisition. It is a plain and settled point that this is a fatal error in the proceedings, and the case of The State v. Covenhoven, decided in this court, is conclusive of the question.
    
      Pearce, contra.
   Per Cur.

The objection is fatal; the inquisition must be quashed. No man can be legally bound by proceedings against him, of which he has not been notified in a proper and regular manner.

Cited in Cruiser v. State, 3 Har. 208.