Case ID: njl_3/html/0197-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BERRY and DEY against MEAD.
    OH CERTIORARI.
    The summons in this case, was for $28.42. There had been an adjournment below; and on the day to which the cause was adjourned, the justice made the following entry on his docket:
    
      “ The defendant did not appear; the plaintiff [457] produced in evidence, a former execution against the defendant; whereupon I gave judgment against the defendant in favor of the plaintiff, for the above sum, and sixty-three cents costs.”
   By the Court.

If this was an action of debt, brought on a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, against the defendant, the judgment itself, or a regular certified copy thereof, should have been produced on the trial; the execution was not sufficient. But it does not appear in whose favor the execution was; nor in what way the defendant was liable to the plaintiff below. There is not sufficient on this record to sustain an action.

Judgment reversed.