Case Name: JOHNSON against HOLMES
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1806-11
Citations: 2 N.J.L. 135
Docket Number: 
Parties: JOHNSON against HOLMES.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 126–126

Head Matter:
JOHNSON against HOLMES.
CERTIORARI.
Summons may omit township of the justice’s office.
The reason relied on for reversing this judgment, was that the summons was defective in not naming the [99] town in which the defendant was to appear, but only mentioned to appear at the house of the justice, leaving out the town in which the justice’s house was situated. . It appeared by the record, that the defendant below, appeared at the time appointed in the summons, and craved a nonsuit for the above defect in the summons; and the justice refusing to nonsuit for that cause, the defendant then disappeared; when the justice proceeded to try the cause in his absence. Mr. Crane, for the plaintiff in certiorari, who was the defendant below, insisted, [*] that this was a fatal error, and that judgment ought to be reversed.

Opinion:
By the Court.
— The exception is captious; let judgment be affirmed.