Case ID: tapp-rep_1/html/0074-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "President.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JONES vs. TEMPLE.
    By the return to a certiorari it must appear that the inferior court had jurisdiction, or the judgment of such court will be reversed.
    Certiorari, to Paul Preston, Esq., a justice of the peace.
    The following transcript was returned, viz.: “ Summons returned “ August 31,1816, defendant appeared and was not ready for trial, and “ it is put off until 7th day of Sept. next. Sept. 7th, parties appeared, “ and after hearing the several proofs judgment is given in favor of “plaintiff, for $5 18 cents.”
   President.

It is necessary that it should appear by the transcript that the subject matter of the suit was within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, that jurisdiction being a limited one; it does not appear here for what the suit was brought. Let the judgment of the justice, therefore, be reversed.