Case ID: njl_2/html/0302-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By Tins Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[233] [†] BRANT against WOODRUFF.
    ON CERTIORARI.
    Reversal. Demand for damages, should specify the injury.
    The state of demand made below, was in these words: 
      x< Damages demanded, twenty-five dollars.” There was a trial by jury, and a verdict and judgment for nine dollars and sixty-four cents, in favor of the plaintiff below. It was contended for the plaintiff in certiorari, who was the defendant below, that the state of demand did not contain a legal cause of action.
    
      Marsh, attorney for the plaintiff.
   By Tins Court.

— The injury is not stated from whence the damage arose. This is essential to the maintenance of the action.

Judgment reversed.