Case Name: WHITE against CRAMMER
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1809-09
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 550
Docket Number: 
Parties: WHITE against CRAMMER.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 137–138

Head Matter:
WHITE against CRAMMER.
OS CERTIORARI.
On the return day of the summons, in the cause below, the defendant did not appear; whereupon the justice, without examining any witness, but on [f] the plaintiff’s producing an execution, which he contended he had paid at the instance of the defendant, and also the production of a paper purporting to be an order, which the plaintiff contended the defendant had become answerable to pay, the justice rendered judgment, as he calls it, by default.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The judgment cannot be supported. There must be a trial, and that by legal evidence, to justify a judgment.
Judgment reversed.