Case ID: njl_3/html/0256-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

VAIL against WRIGHT.
    ON CERTIORARI.
    A cause may not be tried in plaintiff’s absence.
    The action below was brought on a note. The parties had met before the justice, and the defendant had filed a set-off, on which the cause was adjourned. At the time of adjournment the plaintiff did not appear; the justice, in the absence of the plaintiff, proceeded to trial and allowed the set-off of the defendant- without examining witnesses.
   By the Court.

The plaintiff not appearing, the justice could not try the cause in his absence, he ought to have non-suited the plaintiff ;■ but even if he was right in proceeding to trial, the set-off of the defendant should have been proved.

Judgment reversed.