Case Name: Whittlesey vs. Zane
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1832-08
Citations: 9 Wend. 432
Docket Number: 
Parties: Whittlesey vs. Zane.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wendell's Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 432–432

Head Matter:
Whittlesey vs. Zane.
ALBANY,
Aug. 1832.
Where it appears from a bill of particulars that the damages claimed in a suit in the common pleas is less than $250, a certiorari cannot issue to remove the cause into this court.

Opinion:
A motion was made to quash a certiorari, sued out to remove a cause from a common pleas court into this court. The damages claimed exceeded $250, but the plaintiff had furnished a bill of particulars, which shewed that the sum demanded was less than $250. The court decided that the bill of particulars was conclusive evidence of the amount claimed, and that the certiorari must therefore be quashed,.