Case ID: njl_2/html/0193-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STRETCH against HANCOCK.
    ON OEBTIOBABI.
    Entering judgment by a justice on judgment note, without process and proof, illegal.
    
    The following being a transcript of the justice’s docket, was returned with the certiorari:
    
    
      
    
    
      This was the whole of the record in the cause below.
    Crane, for plaintiff.
    
      
       Vide ante, *90, *91.
      
    
   By the Court.

— It hath been frequently decided in this court, that the justice cannot enter up judgment on these kinds of instruments. The defendant must be brought into court in the usual way, and the same proceeding had, as in other cases of written contracts.

Judgment reversed.