Case Name: Joshua Woolston vs. John Gale and Israel Bodine
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1827-02
Citations: 9 N.J.L. 33
Docket Number: 
Parties: Joshua Woolston vs. John Gale and Israel Bodine.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 42–43

Head Matter:
Joshua Woolston vs. John Gale and Israel Bodine.
ON CERTIORARI.
Upon a scii'e facias the only judgment which the justice can render against the defendant is that a new execution issue.
A judgment had been rendered by a justice of the peace •in favor of Gale and Bodine, against Woolston on the 24th of June, 1823, for $35.64 debt, and $1.97 costs, and an execution issued thereon. A year having elapsed after the issuing of the execution and the same remaining unsatisfied, Gale and Bodine sued out a scire facias against Woolston to shew cause why a new execution should not issue. Upon the return of the scire facias the proceedings are stated in the transcript of the justice to have been as follows, viz : “ John Gale, one of the plaintiffs, appeared and filed their state of demand, with the old execution, and prayed a new execution for the whole amount of the former execution, together with the interest and cost due thereon. The *33] defendant *filed no plea, and as the plaintiff brought forward .the former execution, and no exceptions being filed against their demand, I therefore have granted a new execution, for the sum of forty-four dollars and seventy-one cents, with the sum of one dollar and forty-four cents costs.”
Sims,
on behalf of the plaintiff in certiorari, moved tó reverse, this judgment, because the "justice had upon the scire facias rendered a judgment for an amount greater than the original judgment and costs, when by law he had no right to award any other than that a new execution issue.

Opinion:
Chief Justice.
It has been more than once determined that on scire facias the justice is to render judgment, that execution issue, and for costs, and cannot render a new judgment for the amount of the original judgment and interest and costs thereon.
Therefore lei the judgment be reversed.