Case ID: johns_12/html/0418-01.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

St. John against Benedict.
    
      t ( t a second adjonrnment to a defendant, for nesses *wfierríie fov'not” having utter"tlL ‘fct adjournment, A justice may
    IN ERROR, on certiorari to a justice’s court,
    ' After the cause had been adjourned on the application of the u 11 plaintiff in error, thé defendant below: the defendant, at the adjourned day, by his attorney, offered to swear that he still wanted material witnesses, and to give security, but did not 0®"cr ■ to prove that he had taken any measures to obtain the witnesses. The justice refused a second adjournment, and the defendant’s attorney withdrew. The cause was heard ex parte, and judgment given for the-plaintiff.
   Per Curiam.

Although the justice may, upon reasonable cause, grant a second adjournment,- yet, according to the return, he acted discreetly in refusing it in this case; because there was no excuse offered'for the loches in not procuring the witnesses after the first adjournment.

. Judgment affirmed.