Case Name: BRANT against WOODRUFF
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1807-11
Citations: 2 N.J.L. 320
Docket Number: 
Parties: [233] [†] BRANT against WOODRUFF.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 302–303

Head Matter:
[233] [†] BRANT against WOODRUFF.
ON CERTIORARI.
Reversal. Demand for damages, should specify the injury.
The state of demand made below, was in these words: x< Damages demanded, twenty-five dollars.” There was a trial by jury, and a verdict and judgment for nine dollars and sixty-four cents, in favor of the plaintiff below. It was contended for the plaintiff in certiorari, who was the defendant below, that the state of demand did not contain a legal cause of action.
Marsh, attorney for the plaintiff.

Opinion:
By Tins Court.
— The injury is not stated from whence the damage arose. This is essential to the maintenance of the action.
Judgment reversed.