Case ID: njl_9/html/0311-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Ewing, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Azariah Hann vs. John Gosling.
    CERTIORARI.
    If on tlio record of the court there is an omission of the sum for which the judgment is ordered, and a blank space left for the purpose of filling up the same, the record is incomplete, and the judgment will be reversed.
    This was a certiorari to the Common Pleas of the county of Salem to reverse the judgment of that court, rendered on appeal from the judgment of a justice.
    
      R. P. Thompson and W. Halsted, for the plaintiff in certiorari,
    relied upon a variety of reasons for the reversal of the judgment. The only one necessary to notice is the following, viz : Because the amount of the debt and costs for which the Court of Common Pleas rendered judgment is not entered in the minutes of the court, but the same left in blank and incomplete. The record sent *up from the [*249 Common Pleas was as follows : “ The counsel of the parties having summed'up, the court do affirm the judgment of the justice below, with costs of increase. Whereupon it is considered that the said John Gosling, appellee, do recover of the said Azariah Hann, the appellant, the sum of-■— debt, and --- costs of suit.”
   Ewing, C. J.

The judgment is not properly entered. Wo sum is mentioned. Therefore let it be reversed. We give no opinion upon the other points.