Case ID: conn_8/html/0165-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Peters, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Green against Hobby.
    
      Fairfield,
    
    June, 1830.
    The SupremeCourt of Errors will not take cognizance of any case, which has not come regularly before the superior court, by appeal, writ of error or original process.
    Therefore, where an action was brought a justice of the peace, and the parties, during its pendency there, agreed upon a statement of facts, subject to the opinion of the superior court; and a case thus made was entered in the superior court, and reserved for the advice of this Court; it was held, that the case here was coram nonjudice; and it was erased from the docket.
    This was an action on the statute concerning fences and common fields, brought before a justice of the peace; where the parties agreed upon a statement of facts, subject to the opinion of the superior court. A case thus made was entered in that court, and reserved for the advice of this Court. It was now submitted without argument.
   Peters, J.

The Supreme Court of Errors has legal cognizance only of writs of error from the superior court. But as in the course of trials in that court, interlocutory and other questions frequently arise, which require advice or revision, a rule has been adopted, authorizing the superior court, at their discretion, to reserve for the advice of this Court such questions as may arise on motions for new trial and cases stated in the superior court. But to authorize the interference of this Court, in any case, it must have come regularly before the superior court, by appeal, writ of error or original process ; as there is no rule or law authorizing the Supreme Court of Errors to take cognizance of a case stated by an inferior court. This case, here, is coram nonjudice, and must be stricken from the docket.

The other Judges were of the same opinion.

Erased from the docket.