Case Name: Coffin, Executor, against Tracy
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1805-08
Citations: 3 Cai. 129
Docket Number: 
Parties: Coffin, Executor, against Tracy.
Judges: 
Reporter: Caines' Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 129–129

Head Matter:
Coffin, Executor, against Tracy.
Confessing a judgment in a justice’s court, will not give it jurisdiction in a suit by an executor.
IN ERROR from a £10 court, the defendant relied on the now plaintiff’s having confessed judgment in the inferior tribunal, and therefore this case was distinguishable from those, in which the court had determined an executor could not sue before a justice of the peace.

Opinion:
Per curiam.
Consent will take away error, but neither that nor confession will give jurisdiction.
N. B. This cause was tried in the court below before the act of the last session.