Case ID: cai_3/html/0170-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hugh Moor against Roswell Ames.
    .An action will one justice, to recover back fineTmposedon a witness by ibi^cmitempt in a suit before ⅛™'
    ON certiorari. The suit before the justice, was to recover back a fine of $ imposed by the now plaintiff upon the present defendant, for a contempt in refusing to be sworn, or answer as a witness in a cause tried before him.
   Per curiam.

A justice is not liable to a suit for a judicial act, and the merits of the imposition of the fine, cannot pe overhauled before another justice. The magistrate ⅛ the first suit had exclusive jurisdiction to determine when the witness was in contempt.