Case Name: MURPHY'S Administrator against DAVIS and WIFE
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1811-09
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 844
Docket Number: 
Parties: MURPHY’S Administrator against DAVIS and WIFE.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 412–412

Head Matter:
MURPHY’S Administrator against DAVIS and WIFE.
ON CERTIORARI.
A general judgment against administrators, is error. Judgment without trial, reversed.
Davenport moved to reverse the judgment of the justice, for that the action below was brought against the defendant as administrator, and the judgment rendered [*] in the usual form against the defendant, and not against the goods of. the intestate; and also for that there was a judgment without trial. Both these facts appeared by the record.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The judgment must be reversed on both grounds.
Judgment reversed.