Case ID: njl_2/html/0146-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LOFTON and NAILER against CHAMPION.
    CEBTIOBAEI.
    Demand insufficient. No judgment.
    
    The state of demand delivered the justice, was as follows:
    May 2d, 1805, I, as overseer of the road, do find damage done on the road from John Bodine to Nicholas Sooyes, by Eli Lofton and Joseph 'Nailer, by which I bring this action, against them, my demand is sixty dollars, $60.
    Elias Champion, overseer of the road.
    [116] The cause was tried by a jury, who found a verdict for the plaintiff before the justice, for $41.55. On this verdict the justice rendered no judgment, but issued [*] execution. It appeared by the proceedings sent up by the justice that the real controversy between the parties was about the performance of a contract, respecting the grubbing and clearing a piece of road described in the state of demand; it was contended on the part of the plaintiff in certiorari, that the state of demand was insensible and insufficient; and that as no judgment had been rendered, execution could not legally be issued; and the court being of that opinion, ordered the proceedings before the justice, to be made null and void.
    
      Read, for plaintiff.
    
      
       See notes to last case. — Ed.