Case ID: njl_12/html/0144-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

*Benjamin South vs. Stacy Decou and Joseph Cole, Executors of David Cole, deceased.
    Where several items are demanded in a state of demand, one of whicli is bad, and judgment is rendered for the whole amount, the judgment will be reversed. A state of demand containing an item like the following, viz: “ Also vendue account of principal and interest, $32,” is bad.
    The defendants in certiorari, sued South before a justice of the peace, upon the following state of demand : “ The plaintiffs demand of defendant, for due bill given to deceased, bearing date April 6th, 1826, for thirteen dollars and thirteen cents, on which there is a balance of principal and interest of eight dollars and twenty-three cents. Also vendue account of principal and interest, thirty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents; making in the whole, forty-one dollars twelve cents, for which plaintiff prays judgment with costs of suit.” The justice rendered judgment against South, for forty-one dollars and twelve cents, besides costs; and South thereupon brought this certiorari.
    
      Potts, for the plaintiff in certiorari,
    assigned as a reason for the reversal of this judgment, that the state of demand contained no legal cause of action.
   By the Court.

There are two charges in this state of demand. The first is for a due bill, and the second “ a vendue account of principal and interest, thirty-two dollars.” The last charge is bad, and as judgment was for the whole sum demanded, it must be reversed.

Judgment reversed.