Case ID: njl_2/html/0154-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Kirkpatrick, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[*] RYERSON against KITCHELL.
    ON CERTIORARI, TO MORRIS COUNTY COMMON PLEAS.
    On plea admitting a sum due plaintiff, without a tender, judgment must be for plaintiff.
    The plaintiff in this court, was also plaintiff before the justice.
   Kirkpatrick, C. J.

— The defendant in this suit, when instituted before Justice Manderville, filed a plea in writing to the demand of the plaintiff, in which plea he expressly admitted himself to owe to the plaintiff, twenty-eight shillings and sixpence, which he there tenders to the plaintiff, but does not pay it into court. Upon the hearing of the cause, the justice renders a judgment for the plaintiff for $57.21 and $5.53 cents costs. From this judgment there was an appeal to the Common Pleas of Morris, and there that judgment was reversed, and a new judgment entered for the defendant.

This judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, is now before this court by certiorari; and I am of opinion, that it .must be reversed. The defendant admits himself by this plea, to owe a certain sum; the tendering that sum to the plaintiff, is no payment; upon the plea itself, therefore, judgment ought to have been for the plaintiff.

The other justices concurred.

Judgment reversed.