Case Name: STATE, KELLER, PROSECUTOR, v. THOMAS McGRATH
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1882-02
Citations: 44 N.J.L. 164
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE, KELLER, PROSECUTOR, v. THOMAS McGRATH.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 44
Pages: 164–165

Head Matter:
STATE, KELLER, PROSECUTOR, v. THOMAS McGRATH.
The issuing of an execution is a proceeding entirely distinct from tlie judgment, and irregularities in the issuing of the execution cannot affect the judgment in anywise.
On certiorari to remove judgment of a justice of the peace.
Argued at November Term, 1881, before Justices Knapp and Dixon.
For the plaintiff in certiorari, H. Traphagen.
For the defendant, M. T. Newbold.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Knapp, J.
The judgment which is here questioned seems to be entirely regular. There was jurisdiction in the justice over the subject matter and of the parties, and nothing irregular or illegal in the trial and proceedings is apparent.
The attack ostensibly made against the judgment is really against the regularity of the execution which issued under the judgment. Issuing execution is a proceeding entirely distinct from the judgment. Krumeick v. Krumeick, 2 Green 39.
Irregularities in its issue cannot affect the judgment in anywise, however great the irregularities or errors may be. For aught that appears, the judgment must be affirmed.