Case ID: njl_1/html/0044-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JEFFERS v. BROOKFIELD.
    An action for false imprisonment is not within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace.
    
      Certiorari to Justice Little.
    It appeared in this case that part of plaintiff’s demand below was founded on an allegation that Jeffers, the defendant, who was a constable, had arrested him on Sunday, on a warrant.
   Per Curiam.

Reverse the judgment. An action for false imprisonment is not cognizable before a justice,

Judgment reversed. 
      
      
         See All. Edit. Laws N. J., fol, 473, chap. 623, § 13.