Case ID: njl_7/html/0077-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Kirkpatrick, O. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

*Peter Bilderback against William Pouner.
    ON CERTIORARI.
    ]. The justice must enter the true style of the action in bis docket.
    2. In an action of covenant, the state of demand must shew that the instrument on which the action is founded is a sealed instrument.
    
      Dayton moved to reverse the judgment of the justice — 1. Because the justice had entered no style of action in his docket. It was called, in the transcript, “ an action in case for covenant broken.”
    2. If it was an action of covenant, the state of demand was insufficient; because it did not shew that the instrument on 'which the action was brought was a sealed instrument. 1 Hals. 95.
    
      Jeffers, contra.
   Kirkpatrick, O. J.

I think that both on principle and precedent the judgment must be set aside.

Judgment reversed.