Case Name: Ex parte Weed
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1826-02
Citations: 5 Cow. 286
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ex parte Weed.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cowen's Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 286–286

Head Matter:
Ex parte Weed.
An appeal bond must recite the precise amount of the judgment before thejustice.
On appeal from a justice’s judgment, to the C. P. of St. , . . " J ° .. , „ Lawrence, the justice's return stated a judgment before him jn cause 0f Weed v. White, of $4 25 for the defen7 ^ dant; but the repeal bond recited a judgment in a cause between the same parties, of $5 00 for the defendant.
The trial coming on, the common pleas refused, for the above reason (and another which it is not material to notice) to proceed in the trial, and quashed the appeal.
A motion was now made for a mandamus to compel them to proceed with the trial.
H. Allen, for the motion.
S. Wright, Jun. contra

Opinion:
Curia.
The common pleas were right in quashing the appeal for the variance. There might well be two judgments between the parties ; one for $5, and the other for $4 25. In an action by the appellee upon the bond, the judgment recited by it could not, without matter aliunde, appear to be the same as the one revised upon the appeal. We do not say whether such matter could be received; but, at any rate, he ought not to be put to such a doubtfm remedy, as this bond would afford him. We have uniformly required great strictness in prosecuting these appeals and we felt ourselves justified in this course, from the language of the statute.
Motion denied.