Case ID: njl_2/html/0126-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOHNSON against HOLMES.
    CERTIORARI.
    Summons may omit township of the justice’s office.
    The reason relied on for reversing this judgment, was that the summons was defective in not naming the [99] town in which the defendant was to appear, but only mentioned to appear at the house of the justice, leaving out the town in which the justice’s house was situated. . It appeared by the record, that the defendant below, appeared at the time appointed in the summons, and craved a nonsuit for the above defect in the summons; and the justice refusing to nonsuit for that cause, the defendant then disappeared; when the justice proceeded to try the cause in his absence. Mr. Crane, for the plaintiff in certiorari, who was the defendant below, insisted, [*] that this was a fatal error, and that judgment ought to be reversed.
   By the Court.

— The exception is captious; let judgment be affirmed.