Case Name: COLWELL against PARCELL
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1809-09
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 561
Docket Number: 
Parties: COLWELL against PARCELL.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 148–149

Head Matter:
COLWELL against PARCELL.
OH CERTIORARI.
Fictitious credit will not give jurisdiction to justice’s court.
The plaintiff below delivered to the justice an account of various items, in all, amounting to $394.84. And then made the following deduction, to wit: I hereby credit the sum of $294.84, in order to bring my demand within the jurisdiction of the court; I demand'one hundred dollars. There was a trial, verdict and judgment for $96.55.
S. F. ante 5S8, post, 613, 660.

Opinion:
By The Court.
The plaintiff' cannot give the justice jurisdiction of so large an amount in this loose way. He must set out his credit with more certainty. There is an evasion on the face of the record.
Judgment reversed.
Cited in Farley v. McIntire, 1 Gr. 190; Howell v. Burnett, Spence 265.