Case ID: njl_3/html/0132-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BENNET against BOZORTH.
    ON CERTIORARI.
    Delivering execution to constable, does not of itself make him liable for the debt.
    The action below was brought on the following state of demand:
    
      
      
    
    The cause was tried by the justice, who rendered a judgment for the plaintiff below, for $57.88, with costs.
    It was now contended on the part of the plaintiff in error, that the state of demand did not set out a lawful cause of action.
    
      Nugent, att’y for plaintiff.
   By the Court.

Merely putting into the hands [409] of a constable an execution, does not of itself make the constable liable for the debt; something more must be set out in the state of demand, to maintain an action.

Judgment reversed.