Case Name: Stacy Prickett vs. Isabella Prickett and Elizabeth Prickett
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1831-02
Citations: 12 N.J.L. 187
Docket Number: 
Parties: Stacy Prickett vs. Isabella Prickett and Elizabeth Prickett.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 214–215

Head Matter:
Stacy Prickett vs. Isabella Prickett and Elizabeth Prickett.
In an action of forcible entry and detainer tlie justice must enter on his docket the return of the sheriff to the venire.
This was a certiorari to remove the proceedings in an action of forcible entry and detainer.
* Wall, for the plaintiff in certiorari,
moved to reverse the judgment, because the justice had not entered on his docket the return of the sheriff to the venire. The entry on the docket was as follows: “Joseph A. Clarke, sheriff of the county of Burlington, made return to me of the venire at the time and place therein mentioned with the panel thereunto annexed, containing the following names, Ac.” This, lie said, was not a compliance with the statute (Rev. Laws, see. 16, page 352) which requires the justice to enter on his docket true copies of the summons and venire and their respective returns.

Opinion:
By the Court.
A few terms since, we reversed a judgment in forcible entry and detainer, from the county of Sussex, for the same reason which is assigned for the reversal of this judgment.
Let the judgment be reversed.