Case Name: GOLTRY & FALLOWFIELD against RUCKMAN
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1808-09
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 427
Docket Number: 
Parties: [*] [324] GOLTRY & FALLOWFIELD against RUCKMAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 21–21

Head Matter:
[*] [324] GOLTRY & FALLOWFIELD against RUCKMAN.
OH CERTIORARI.
A state of demand is needless, if judgment be confessed.
The plaintiffs in this court were the defendants below, and voluntarily confessed a judgment for the justice for $82.20. The reason assigned for the reversal of the judgment was, that no state of demand had been filed with the justice; it was now urged that this was essentially requisite; that it ought to appear for what cause of action the judgment below was rendered, otherwise the defendants below would be exposed to another action for the same cause.
M’Donald, att’y for plaintiff.
S. P. South. 89. 7 Halst. 127.

Opinion:
By the Court.
We cannot reverse a judgment voluntarily confessed, for this cause; a convenience would arise, even in this case, from having the cause of action set out in the proceedings below; but the defendants below should have seen to that before they confessed judgment.
Judgment affirmed.
Cited in Branson v. Eayre, 7 Halst. 127.