Case Name: KIRKPATRICK against MURPHY
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1812-05
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 952
Docket Number: 
Parties: KIRKPATRICK against MURPHY.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 508–508

Head Matter:
KIRKPATRICK against MURPHY.
ON CERTIORARI.
One of the items in the state of demand, and on which a recovery was had, was as follows, viz:—
To [*] half an execution obtained against me and said defendant, to the amount of $35 his share.
The insufficiency of the state of demand was alleged as a ground of reversal.

Opinion:
By the Court.
Merely that an execution of judgment was obtained against the plaintiff and defendant jointly, furnishes' no ground of action. If the plaintiff had been compelled to pay the whole, or had done it at the request of the defendant, no doubt but he would maintain an action for one half; but as this case is stated,-it lays no ground of action.
Judgment reversed.