Case ID: cole-cai-cas_1/html/0490-02.html
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Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hugh Moore v. Roswell Ames.
    
    ON certiorari. The suit before the justice, waste 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 be overhauled before another justice.The magistrate in the first suit had exclusive jurisdiction to determine when the witness was in- contempt. ...