Case ID: njl_3/html/0485-01.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

STEELMAN against NIXON.
    The action below was brought by Nixon against Steelman, as constable. The state of demand was headed in this way:
    Jonathan Steelman, constable, in debt, to Phebe Dickson, in trover. To wrongfully selling [f] my property, as follows. To one feather bed, £12, and other articles charged in the same way, amounting in all, to £30 7s 3d.
    The jury found a verdict for $21.10. The insufficiency of the state of demand, was alleged as error.
   By the Court.

The state of demand is too loose. The defendant below is neither charged with taking the goods, nor converting them to his own use.

Judgment reversed.