Case Name: Hamilton and Edsall against Decker
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1820-02
Citations: 5 N.J.L. 813
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hamilton and Edsall against Decker.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 937–937

Head Matter:
Hamilton and Edsall against Decker.
ON CERTIORARI.
Casher vs. Peterson, 1 South. 318 (a). Bordine vs. Combs, 3 Gr. 412

Opinion:
STATE of demand in the usual form, in trespass for taking personal property. At the trial, the defendants below offered an execution against one Allingham, and which had been delivered to one of them, as a constable; as evidence to j ustify taking the property. This execution was rejected. And Halsey now assigned its rejection as cause of reversal. Vroom replied, that it was incompetent, until legalized by the production of a judgment. 1 Ld. Ray. 733. 5. Bur. 2631.
The court affirmed the judgment.