Case Name: Abraham Swisher against William Hibler
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1820-02
Citations: 5 N.J.L. 808
Docket Number: 
Parties: Abraham Swisher against William Hibler.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 931–931

Head Matter:
Abraham Swisher against William Hibler.
ON CERTIORARI.
Scirefadas.
Clark vs. Custard, 1 South. 210. Boylan vs. Anderson, Pen. *529. Tindall vs. Carson, 1 Har. 94. See Revised Statutes, Justices’ Courts, § 62. Acts of 1875—31.

Opinion:
ON the 17th June, 1816, Jacob Kerr, then one of the justices of the peace of Sussex county, gave judgment in favour of Hibler, against Swisher, for $93.55. On the 19th April, 1819, a scire facias was issued, to revive the judgment. Before issuing this scire facias, the time of office, of justice Kerr, had expired. And Ewing, for the plaintiff in certiorari, urged that the scire facias was not a common law, but statutory proceeding: and that this was a case in which it could not issue, because it had not been provided for by the statute. See act of February, 1812. Wall answered ; but the court unanimously reversed the judgment upon the scire facias.