Case Name: DALLAS against HENDRY
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1812-09
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 974
Docket Number: 
Parties: DALLAS against HENDRY.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 527–528

Head Matter:
DALLAS against HENDRY.
OH CERTIORARI.
The action below, was an action of debt, brought under the timber act, for four penalties, for cutting trees. The justice had made an entry of the action in his docket, when the process was first issued; [708] but had not stated that it was brought for penalties under the timber act.
Mr. Ewing,
therefore contended, that it was not such a special entry of the commencement of the action, as the act respecting common informers, requires.

Opinion:
By the Court.
Although it would be convenient and proper to make the entry in these cases moré special, yet the nature of the action appears from the subsequent proceedings, and the act is in terms complied with.
Mr. Ewing, then urged the reversal of the judgment on the ground, that the first process in this case, was by warrant, when it ought to have been by summons, as the defendant could not be arrested in a qwj, tarn action.
By the Couet. — This objection should have been made before the justice; it is too late now.
It was then said that the judgment being in general terms in favor of the plaintiff, was error; that it [*] should have been in favor of the plaintiff for one half, as owner of the land, and the other half as the prosecutor.
By the Court. — The plaintiff is entitled to all the money recovered. The judgment is well entered.
Judgment affirmed.
Wall, for the defendant.
Cited in English v. Bonham, 2 Harr. 350; Steward v. Sears, 7 Vr. 175.
Tidd. 91.
See 7 Halst. 93.