Case Name: BATES against ADAMS
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1812-11
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 985
Docket Number: 
Parties: BATES against ADAMS. [718]
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 539–539

Head Matter:
BATES against ADAMS. [718]
OH CERTIORARI.
The action below was an action on the case; but the state of demand set out that the defendant shot the plaintiff with a loaded gun, and put several shot in the body and arms of the plaintiff.
[†] It was objected to this judgment, that the action was in case, and the state of demand in trespass; vi et armis.

Opinion:
By the Coujrt.
That is not all; it is an action for an assault and battery on the person of the plaintiff below, of which, the justice had no jurisdiction.
Judgment reversed.