Case Name: Platner against Best
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1814-10
Citations: 11 Johns. 530
Docket Number: 
Parties: Platner against Best.
Judges: 
Reporter: Johnson's Reports
Volume: 11
Pages: 530–530

Head Matter:
Platner against Best.
NEW YORK,
October, 1814.
An action cantaíneáe to*™omitted? Sby uMofánother ajudgmentwaa plaintiff” but not for the amount due to him.
IN ERROR, on certiorari, from a justice’s court. Best brought an action on the case against Plainer, and declared against him, in substance, that he, B,, had sued P., on a former suit, and that one of the items of his demand, amounting to 7 dollars, was confessed by the defendant, and the other disputed; and that the justice, by mistake in giving his judgment; omitted to allow the 7 dollars. The suit below was to recover that . . . item, but what it was is not stated m the return. The defendant pleaded the general issue and a set-off. Upon the trial, the plaintiff proved his declaration, by the justice who tried the-former cause, The defendant did not prove any set-off, but objected to the plaintiff’s recovery, on the ground of the former trial. The objection was overruled, and a verdict was found for the plaintiff below, on which the justice gave judgment.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The substantial justice of this case would appear to be with the judgment. But it cannot be supported, without a violation of a settled rule of law. The cause of action has once been tried, and it would be a dangerous principle to allow a judgment to be opened and the cause of action again tried, by another justice, on the ground of a mistake in the former trial. If such mistake was made, it cannot be corrected in this way. The judgment must accordingly be reversed.
Judgment reversed.