Case Name: POTTS and POTTS against HENDRICKSON and WYCKOFF
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1813-09
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 1042
Docket Number: 
Parties: POTTS and POTTS against HENDRICKSON and WYCKOFF.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 593–594

Head Matter:
POTTS and POTTS against HENDRICKSON and WYCKOFF.
OH" CERTIORARI.
Hendrickson and Wyckoff sued Richard Potts and Stacy Potts, before the justice, and exhibited to the justice the following state of demand:
Bichard Potts and Stacy Potts, to Samuel Wyckoff and Gilbert Hendrickson, overseers of the poor of the township of Upper Freehold, in the county of Monmouth, Dr., for provisions had by Deborah James, for the support of Garret Cunningham, 1812, October 29, to one week’s provisions $1.25; so on for 14 weeks, in all, $17.50.
lowing, for plaintiff.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The state of demand is wholly deficient ; no cause of action is stated; it does not in any way appear why the Potts are legally obliged to support Garret Cunningham; nor even if they were, why they were bound to pay to the overseers of the poor what Deborah James had for the purpose of supporting him. There must be some legal cause of action on which to ground a judgment.
Judgment reversed.