Case Name: TAYLOR v. HOGAN
Court: Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Decision Date: 1822-08
Citations: 23 F. Cas. 777
Docket Number: 
Parties: TAYLOR v. HOGAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 23
Pages: 777–778

Head Matter:
Case No. 13,794a.
TAYLOR v. HOGAN.
[1 Hempst. 16.]
Supreme Court, Territory of Arkansas.
Aug., 1822.
Justice op Peace — Appeal—Tkial de Novo.
It is no ground for reversing the judgment of a justice rendered on a specialty, that neither the plaintiff nor his agent appeared at the trial, and the appellate court, instead of determining the cause on the transcript from the justice, should have tried it de novo on the merits.
Error to Pulaski circuit court.
[This was an action by John Taylor against Edmund Hogan.]

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT.
This was an appeal from a justice of the peace to the court below, where the judgment was reversed on the ground that the plaintiff did not appear before the justice in person, or by agent duly empowered by letter of attorney, on the day of trial. We are of opinion that the court erred in reversing the judgment of the justice on that ground, the suit having been brought on a specialty; and also erred in determining the ease on the transcript from the justice alone, when it shou.a have been tried on the merits as though the suit had originated in that court. Geyer, Dig. 390. Reversed.