Case Name: FITZHUGH v. RIVARD
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1896-04-21
Citations: 109 Mich. 154
Docket Number: 
Parties: FITZHUGH v. RIVARD.
Judges: Grant, Hooker, and Moore, JJ., concurred. Long, O. J., did not sit.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 109
Pages: 154–155

Head Matter:
FITZHUGH v. RIVARD.
Justice’s Judgment—Docket Entry—Adjournment.
A justice’s judgment, rendered upon the failure of the defendant to appear on the adjourned day, is void, where the docket entry does not show the place to which the cause was adjourned. Waldron v. Palmer, 104 Mich. 556, followed.
Error to Bay; Maxwell, J.
Submitted April 7, 1896.
Decided April 21, 1896.
Replevin by Charles Eitzhugh, Jr., and another, against Leander Rivard. From a judgment for plaintiffs on verdict directed by the court, defendant brings error.
Affirmed.
Lindner, Porter & Haffey, for appellant.
Simonson, Gillett & CourtrigM, for appellees.

Opinion:
Montgomery, J.
Defendant in this case relied upon a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace. The docket entry showed that the cause was adjourned for six days, without stating the place to which the same was adjourned. The case is ruled by Waldron v. Palmer, 104 Mich. 556. It is sought to distinguish this case from that, on the ground that in the present case the defendant in the case before the justice understood that the case was to be heard at the office of the justice. It is sufficient to say that, although the court assumed this to be the' fact, no proof was offered to show it. We do not mean to intimate that the docket entry could be supplemented in a jurisdictional matter by such proof, if offered.
The judgment is affirmed.
Grant, Hooker, and Moore, JJ., concurred. Long, O. J., did not sit.