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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Etheridge vs. Middleton.
    May Term, 1893.
    New Castle County,
    Judgment. Justice of the Peace,—A judgment by a Justice of the Peace will be reversed where it is not for a sum certain.
    
      Certiorari to Justice William H. Smith, of Hew Castle County. The record showed that it was an action of assumpsit for goods sold and delivered, the demand being $86.83, and that the Justice entered judgment as follows: “I give judgment against the defendant and in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $86.83 with interest and $2.30 cost.”
    The Court reversed the judgment below upon the exception that it “ was not for a sum certain.”
    
      Harry Emmons, for plaintiff.
    
      Charles B. Evans, for defendant.